fucate

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adjective

Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.

OriginLatin fūcātus →
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Meanings

adjectivefucate (comparative more fucate, superlative most fucate)

comparative more fucate · superlative most fucate

  1. obsoleteArtificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.

    virtue and honesty are great motives, and give as fair a lustre as the rest, especially if they be sincere and right, not fucate, but proceeding from true form and an incorrupt judgment […].

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection iii

Origin

  1. Latinfūcātus
  2. Englishfucate

Borrowed from Latin fūcātus, perfect passive participle of fucō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

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APA

fucate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fucate

MLA

“fucate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fucate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fucate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fucate.

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