Definition of "makebate" [make•bate]

• One who excites contentions and quarrels; an instigator. (noun)
• A plant, Jasminum fruticans. (noun)

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• "But after all he pays well that pays with gold; and Mike Lambourne was never a makebate, or a spoil-sport, or the like."
• "[Sidenote: 2 Object.] [Sidenote: A makebate.] [Sidenote: Tenterden steeple.]"
• "Barillon was therefore directed to act, with all possible precautions against detection, the part of a makebate."