anothergates
English
Alternative forms
- anotherguess, anotherguise, anothergaines, anotherkins
Etymology
Likely from another + gate (“way, path, journey”) + -s (“possessive suffix”)
Adjective
anothergates (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Of a different kind or sort.
- 1580, Sir Phillip Sidney, Arcadia:
- If my father had not plaid the hasty fool, I might have had anothergaines husband than Dametas.
- 1619, Robert Sanderson, Ad Clerum:
- If we be of the spiritualty, there would be in us anothergates manifestation of the Spirit than is ordinarily to be found in the temporalty.
- 1663, Samuel Butler, Hudibras:
- When Hudibras, about to enter Upon anothergates adventure.
- 1696, William Whiston, A New Theory of the Earth:
- and by consequence must exclude the Rays of the Sun in anotherguess manner than before.
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Related terms
- algate
- othergates