deaurate

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin deaurātus, perfect passive participle of deaurō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).[1]

Verb

deaurate (third-person singular simple present deaurates, present participle deaurating, simple past and past participle deaurated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To gild.
    • 1598, Francis Meres, The Sinners Guyde. A Worke Contayning the Whole Regiment of a Christian Life:
      it is not lawfull that any thing should be in the liuely Temple of our ſoule, which is not eyther charitie, or ouer-guilded & deaurated with charity

Etymology 2

From Middle English deaurat, from Latin deaurātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).[2]

Adjective

deaurate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Gilded.
    • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 36:
      Of ſo eye bewitching a deaurate ruddie dy is the skincoat of this Lantſgraue, that happy is that nobleman who for his colours in armory can neereſt imitate his chimicall temper, nay which is more, if a man ſhould tell you that god Himens ſaffron colour’d robe were made of nothing but red herrings skins, you would hardly beleeue him: […]

References

  1. ^ “deaurate, v.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
  2. ^ “deaurate, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Latin

Verb

deaurāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of deaurō
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