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Definition of Foliating
1. foliate [v] - See also: foliate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Foliating
Literary usage of Foliating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remarks on the Architecture of the Middle Ages, Especially of Italy by Robert Willis (1835)
"There is a manifest distinction between foiling an arch, and foliating it. ...
This foliating arch continued for a long period to be treated as an ..."
2. Encyclopædia Britannica: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and by Colin MacFarquhar, George Gleig (1797)
"foliating of LOOKING-GLASSES, ... how far if. is applicable to the more commodious
foliating of the common ..."
3. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1877)
"... had I quicksilver, I would make the experiment by foliating a piece of it,
but, for want of this necessary ingredient, this experiment must be deferred. ..."
4. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Western Australia (1913)
"... areas for masses that have escaped the foliating action to occur among the
foliated rocks. It is, of course, possible that the characters mentioned have ..."
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