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es•bat
(es′bat),USA pronunciation n.
- a convocation of witches.
- Latin battuere pound, beat; compare obsolete English esbatement amusement
- apparently a contemporary borrowing of Old French esbat amusement, diversion (French ébat), derivative of esbattre frolic, equivalent. to es- ex- + battre 1965–70