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[LATEEN-SAIL.] lāte-lý, adv. [English late; -ly.] A short time ago; not long ago; recently. "So lately found and so abruptly gone." IMG:content-0386.jpg:[blocks in formation] A. As adjective : 1. Coming after the usual or proper time; behind time, slow, tardy, long delayed; as, a late harvest. *2. Slow, not quick; slow of belief. "A lat man." -Joseph of Arimathie , 695. 3. Advanced toward the close or end; as, late hours of the day. 4. Existing at a previous time, but now gone or ceased; as, the late storms; espec., used of a person deceased, lately or recently in office or place. 5. Recent. "Our late noble master!" Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, v. 1. "As, of late days, our neighbors, The upper Germany, can dearly witne .' Shakesp.: Henry VIII ., v. 3. 6. Keeping late hours; di ipated. "The rudene and swilled insolence Of such late wa aillers."-Milton: Comus , 179. B. As adverb: 1. After the usual or proper time; after delays. "Bring thy news so late." --Shakesp.: Coriolanus, i. 6. hour. 2. Far advanced into the day or night; at a late "Was it so late , friend, ere you went to bed?" Shakesp.: Macbeth , ii. 3. 3. A short time ago or previously; lately, recently. "She leaps that was but late forlorn." Shakesp.: Venus and Adonis , 1,026. 4. Formerly; of old. "Where is the life that late I led?" Shakesp .: Taming of the Shrew, iv. 1. 5. In alate season; late in the season. "To make roses or other flowers, come late , is an experiment of pleasure; for the ancients esteemed much of the rosa sera." -Bacon: Nat . Hist . Of late : "Infinite Love, Whose latence is the plentitude of all." Cole ridge: Destiny of Nations. lā-ten-çỹ, s. [Eng. laten (t); -cy.] The quality or state of being latent or concealed. "Which undesignedne is gathered from their latency , their minutene , their obliquity." -Paley: Evidences , pt. ii., ch. vii. lāte'-ně , s. [Eng. late; -ne .] 1. The quality or state of being late or after the usual or proper time; as, the latene of seasons, the latene of a harvest. 2. Time far advanced in any particular period. "Your latene in life (as you so soon call it) might be improper to begin the world with."- Swift : To Gay, Nov. 23, 1727.