bating

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of bate

prep

1. (archaic)Apart from; except.

   “[A]nd bating a little wilfulness, and a little selfishness, and a little dandification, I don’t know a more honest, or loyal, or gentle creature.”

   “‘The laws of religious society, bating those which are only subservient to the order necessary to their execution, are immutable, not subject to any authority of the society, but only proposed by and within the society, but made by a lawgiver without the society, and paramount to it.’”

   “I replied, That he was a very unworthy man, if it were true, to speak slightingly of a family, which was as good as his own, bating that it was not allied to the peerage […].”

   “There is but little I have heard from you which I did not expect to hear, and which I ought not to have expected; because, bating one circumstance, it is all very true.”

adj

1. (Cornwall, Devon, dialectal)Of the moon, when it is waning.