Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Amate

Amate ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Old French amater, amatir.]

To dismay; to dishearten; to daunt. [Obsolete or Archaic]
The Silures, to amate the new general, rumored the overthrow greater than was true. — Milton

Amate , transitive verb

[Prefix a- + mate.]

To be a mate to; to match. [Obsolete] — Spenser