miniate

comparative more miniate · superlative most miniate

1. Of or relating to the colour of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.

present singular third person miniates · participle present miniating · participle past miniated · past miniated

1. To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion, or with red letters, as in a manuscript.

   At Trinity college in Cambridge is a Psalter in Latin and Saxon, admirably written, and illuminated with letters in gold, silver, miniated, &c.

   1774, Thomas Warton, The History of English Poetry