Definition of "greate"

He setteth the high and principall felicitie of man in pleasure, and thiketh that lyfe most pure and godly, whiche may haue greate delectatio and pleasure, and lytle pensiuenes.

1545, Desiderius Erasmus, A Very Pleasaunt & Fruitful Diologe Called the Epicure‎

132 Perhaps the sillie worme is labour'd sore, And wearied that it can doe noe more; If it be so, as I am greate a-dread, I wish tenne thousand times that I were dead.

c. 1595, Thomas Nash, The Choise of Valentines‎

No more then if you should lay a fly vpon a smooth Cartwheele, or a pinnes head vpon a greate globe.

1630, William Pemble, A Briefe Introduction to Geography‎