ppl. a. Also floreated. [f. as prec. + -ED1.] Decorated or adorned with floral ornaments.
1845. Ecclesiologist, IV. Jan., 17. To omit the floriated Cross is however to retain the shape without the spirit.
1857. J. G. Wood, Com. Obj. Sea Shore, 25. Others have their lungs neatly arranged round their bodies in little spreading tufts, so that the creature has something the aspect of a floriated coronet.
fig. 1892. The Saturday Review, LXXIV. 13 Aug., 183/2. The late mission to Fez and the highly ‘floriated’ accounts of it have been the subject of correspondence, official and other.
