makebate

[meyk-beyt]

noun Archaic.

a person who causes contention or discord.

Origin of makebate

1520–30; make¹ + bate contention, discord (Middle English, derivative of baten to fight, strive; see bate²)

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Historical Examples of makebate

Barillon was therefore directed to act, with all possible precautions against detection, the part of a makebate.
The History of England from the Accession of James II.
Thomas Babington Macaulay
Makebate (IP315,d), busybody, breeder of strife "a discordant element."
Early English Dramatists--Recently Recovered "Lost" Tudor Plays with some others
Various
But after all he pays well that pays with gold; and Mike Lambourne was never a makebate, or a spoil-sport, or the like.
Kenilworth
Sir Walter Scott