Definition of Aureate

1. Adjective. Elaborately or excessively ornamented. "The senator's florid speech"

Exact synonyms: Flamboyant, Florid
Similar to: Fancy
Derivative terms: Flamboyance, Flamboyant, Floridness

2. Adjective. Having the deep slightly brownish color of gold. "A gold carpet"
Exact synonyms: Gilded, Gilt, Gold, Golden
Similar to: Chromatic
Derivative terms: Gilt, Gold

Definition of Aureate

1. a. Golden; gilded.

Definition of Aureate

1. Adjective. golden in color or shine ¹

2. Adjective. characterized by inflated or pompous language ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Aureate

1. golden [adj] - See also: golden

Lexicographical Neighbors of Aureate

aurally
aurally challenged
auramine
auramine O
auramine O fluorescent stain
auramines
auranofin
aurantiaceous
aurantiasis cutis
aurar
auras
aurate
aurated
aurates
auratic
aureate (current term)
aureately
aureation
aurei
aureities
aureity
aurelia
aurelian
aurelians
aurelias
aureola
aureolae
aureolas
aureole
aureoled

Literary usage of Aureate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1900)
"Oriole ; see aureate. Orison ; see Oral. Orlop ; see Leap. ... Orpiment, Orpine ; see aureate. Orrery, an apparatus for illustrating it.; motion of the ..."

2. Chapters on the Metric of the Chaucerian Tradition by Albert Harp Licklider (1910)
"Chief among these is the use of aureate diction; it offers a striking bit of evidence. This feature has often been ascribed to the effort at artificial ..."

3. Outlines of the History of the English Language for the Use of the Junior by George Lillie Craik (1872)
"These are the aureate terms, their pedantic and excessive employment of which Campbell (Essay on English Poetry, xlviii ) objects in particular against the ..."

4. Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance: A Study of Rhetorical Terms in by Donald Lemen Clark (1922)
"RHETORIC AS aureate LANGUAGE As to the late middle ages rhetoric had come to mean to I all intents nothing more than style, it is frequently per- „sonified ..."

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