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mate vb.2 (the sense ‘match, marry’ also occurs)
1. to rival, vie with H8 III. ii. 275.
2. to join or couple “with” Ven. 909* “Her more than haste is mated with delays.”
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.

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