rate sb. (4 common Eliz. sense)
1.
(estimated)
quantity
2H4 IV. i. 22
“I judge their number
Upon . . . the rate of thirty
thousand.”
2.
(estimated) value or
worth
MND. III. i. 161
“a spirit of no common
rate,”
All'sW. V. iii. 91.
3.
estimation,
consideration
Tp. I. ii. 92
“all popular
rate,”
II. i. 116
“in my rate.”
4.
standard or style
Mer.V. I. i. 128
“to be abridg'd From
such a noble rate.”
