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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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REBATE (Fr. See also:rabat, from rabattre, to See also:beat back)  , a See also:term used in See also:commerce, banking, &c . In banking, a See also:rebate is an See also:allowance made to a drawee taking up a See also:bill of See also:exchange before it is due . This allowance is the See also:interest on the unexpired See also:period of the bill, and in practice may be either a fixed or arbitrary See also:rate; more often it is z °/o, about the usual See also:bank See also:deposit rate . In commerce, rebate is sometimes used to mean a See also:discount allowed for prompt See also:payment; it is often See also:equivalent to See also:drawback, i.e. the repayment of See also:part of the See also:duty on imported goods when such goods are subsequently exported in their See also:original or in another See also:form . By the Customs Consolidation See also:Act, 1853, a rebate or See also:deduction is allowed at the See also:custom-See also:house from the fixed duties on certain kinds of goods, on See also:account of damage or loss sustained in warehouses . i See Prisse d'Avennes, L'See also:Art arabe d'apres See also:les monuments du Caire du vii' au xviiie siecle (See also:Paris, 1877) . The unnumbered plates are to be identified by the See also:list given at the beginning of the See also:work . ' For the See also:illustration, see See also:Jean Cledat, " Le monastere et la necropole de Baouit," Mein. de l'Inst. fr. d'archeol. orient. du Caire, tome xii., 1904 . Chapelle, xviii. pl. lxiv . (2) . Descriptive See also:text, p . 92 .

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article " Baouit " by the same author, descriptive of the paintings in F . Cabrol's Dict. d'See also:arch. chret. et de liturgie (Paris, 1907), Ease. xii . B., p .

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