Definition of "bating" in English

verb

1. present participle and gerund of bate

preposition

1. (now rare) Apart from; except.

   • ‘The laws of religious society, bating those which are only subservient to the order necessary to their execution, are immutable, not subject to any authority of the society, but only proposed by and within the society, but made by a lawgiver without the society, and paramount to it.’

adjective

1. (Cornwall, Devon, dialect) Of the moon, when it is waning.