adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of a different kind or sort. not-comparable, obsolete

   "If my father had not plaid the hasty fool, I might have had anothergaines husband than Dametas."

Example

More examples

"If my father had not plaid the hasty fool, I might have had anothergaines husband than Dametas."

Etymology

Likely from another + gate (“way, path, journey”) + -s (“possessive suffix”)

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