Definition of "algate"

algate

/ˈɔːlɡeɪt/

adverb
not comparable
1. (obsolete) Always.
2. (obsolete) Altogether; entirely.
  Quotations
  His onely hart ſore, and his onely foe, / Sith Vna now he algates must forgoe, [...].
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 2, page 187
3. (obsolete) In any way; at all.
  Quotations
  Or fayrer then her ſelfe, if ought algate / Might fayrer be.
  1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 9, page 514
4. (obsolete) By any means; at all events.
  Quotations
  And therefore would I ſhould be algates ſlaine, / For while I liue, his right is in ſuſpence.
  1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Fourth Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, stanza 60, page 67
5. (obsolete) Notwithstanding; nevertheless.
  Quotations
  And with the fall his leg oppreſt ſo ſore, / That for a ſpace there muſt he algates dwell.
  1600, [Torquato Tasso], “The Third Booke of Godfrey of Bulloigne”, in Edward Fairefax [i.e., Edward Fairfax], transl., Godfrey of Bulloigne, or The Recouerie of Ierusalem. […], London: […] Ar[nold] Hatfield, for I[saac] Iaggard and M[atthew] Lownes, stanza 42, page 47