deaurate

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verb

To gild.

Scrabble 9

Meanings

deaurate1

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

present singular third person deaurates · participle present deaurating · participle past deaurated · past deaurated

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo gild.

    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

    1598, Francis Meres, The Sinners Guyde. A Worke Contayning the Whole Regiment of a Christian Life

deaurate2

adjectivedeaurate (not comparable)
  1. not comparableobsoleteGilded.
    1 more example

    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: […]

    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

Origin

deaurate · verb

  1. Latindeaurātus
  2. Englishdeaurate

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

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deaurate · adjective

  1. Latindeaurātus
  2. Middle Englishdeaurat
  3. Englishdeaurate

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

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