2. Adjective. Bearing a patina ¹
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Definition of Patinated
1. patinate [v] - See also: patinate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patinated
Literary usage of Patinated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Origin and Antiquity of Man by George Frederick Wright (1912)
"IMPLEMENTS DEEMED TO BE OF GREAT AGE FROM STUDY OF THE patinated SURFACES Since
the body of this work was in press there has come into my hands a paper of ..."
2. Proceedings of the Geologists' Association by Geologists' Association (1906)
"HEAVILY patinated PALAEOLITHIC FLAKES, BRICK EARTH OF THE CRAY, ST. MARY CRAY.
its high capping of gravel, the evidence for the antiquity of which may be ..."
3. Harvard African Studies by African Dept (1917)
"Thus there is a tendency of the convex face to be patinated evenly, while the
edges of the concave face may be less patinated than the center. ..."
4. Man by Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"Its upper side (not photographed) is very finely patinated but not much ...
The upper of the two implements is finely patinated : its point has been broken ..."
5. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1902)
"The evidence of later fractures on patinated flints is obviously inapplicable to
implements found on the surface, for the age of these later fractures ..."
6. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities and Miscellaneous Objects by Thomas Bateman (1855)
"Small bronze figure of a HARE running, as on the coins of Messana; finely patinated.
33 D. Bronze POTTER'S STAMP, in the form of a sandalled foot, ..."
7. Catalogue of the Collection of Greek and Roman Coins by Sim, George (1879)
"CONCORDIA seated—an excellent dark patinated coin of great rarity, ... CONCORDIA
standing—a fairly preserved coin of excessive rarity and patinated, ..."
8. The Weathering of Aboriginal Stone Artifacts, No. 1.: A Consideration of the by Newton Horace Winchell, Minnesota Historical Society (1913)
"It has lain on the ground for a sufficient length of time to become more or less
deeply patinated. At some subsequent period it has been picked up by ..."
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