Verb
abate of (third-person singular simple present abates of, present participle abating of, simple past and past participle abated of)
(archaic) To lessen, to subtract something from. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift. Seneca