ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
† 1. = FOLIATE a. 1. Obs.
1666. Boyle, Orig. Formes & Qual., II. v. 334. Spirit of Salt, that came over, did (as we expected) bring over so many of the Corpuscles of the Nitre, that, being heated, it would readily enough dissolve foliated Gold.
b. Covered with foil, silvered.
1665. Hooke, Microgr., 214. The shell, especially that which covers the back, is curiously polisht, so that ’tis easie to see, as in a convex Looking-glass, or foliated Glass-ball, the picture of all the objects round about.
2. Composed of thin leaf-like layers or laminæ. Chiefly Geol. and Min. Foliated earth of tartar, an old name of potassium acetate.
1650. Ashmole, Arcanum, 205. This is called the blessed stone: this Earth is white and foliated, whererein [sic] Philosophers doe sow their gold.
1794. Sullivan, View Nat., II. 332. Crystals and gems; for they are all found to be of a foliated or laminated structure.
1833. Lyell, Princ. Geol., III. 11. Crystalline precipitates were formed, some more suddenly, in huge amorphous masses, such as granite; other by successive deposition and with a foliated and stratified structure, as in the rocks termed gneiss and mica-schist.
1854. Thomson, Cycl. Chem., Foliated Tellurium. Red Telluride of Lead.
1866–7. Livingstone, Last Jrnls. (1873), I. iv. 85. Near the Lake, and along its eastern shore, we have mica schist and gneiss foliated, with a great deal of hornblende; but the most remarkable feature of it is that the rocks are all tilted on edge, or slightly inclined to the Lake.
3. Chiefly Zool. and Conchol. Shaped like a leaf or leaves; in leaf-like forms. See also quot. 1859.
1846. Dana, Zooph., iv. 83. The germ-polyp, growing upward and budding as it grows, gives rise to the various branching and nodular zoophytes, while by growth laterally, the explanate or oblique foliated species originate.
1854. R. Patterson, Zool., 28. Some of these [‘sea-mats’] encrust shells or seaweed, others present a foliated appearance of a determinate pattern.
1854. Woodward, Mollusca (1856), 91. Ammonitidæ…. Sutures angulated, or lobed and foliated.
1859. D. Page, Handbk. Geol. Terms, s.v. Foliated.… Certain shells are said to be foliated, when their surfaces are covered with leaf-like projections, as the rose-bush murex.
4. Arch., etc. a. Ornamented with foils. Foliated arch (see quot. 1840). b. Consisting of or ornamented with leaf-work or foliage.
1840. Parker, Gloss. Archit. (ed. 3), 93. Foliated Arch, an arch with a trefoil, cinquefoil, or multifoil under it.
1847. Brandon, Goth. Archit., I. 25. It consists in its general design of a series of equilateral-headed arches springing from small shafts with delicately carved foliated caps of pure Decorated character.
1851. E. Sharpe, Seven Periods, 25. The earlier Windows exhibit tracery which consists almost exclusively of plain foliated circles; but in the later examples other simple geometrical forms were employed.
1886. Ruskin, Præterita, I. v. 163. It was a mighty fact for me, at the height of my child’s interest in minerals, to see our own parlour table loaded with foliated silver and arborescent gold.
5. Furnished with or consisting of leaves. spec. in Her.
1721–90. Bailey, Foliated, Leaved or having Leaves.
1756. P. Browne, Jamaica (1789), 128. This plant … seed but seldom, but in the room of these it bears a large foliated top that is divided and subdivided into two or three series of umbellæ.
1828–40. Berry, Encycl. Her., I. Foliated, leaved.
6. Mus. (See quot.)
1876. Stainer & Barrett, Dict. Mus. Terms, Foliated. A melody or portion of plain-song is said to be foliated when slurred notes have been added above or below those of which it originally consisted.
7. Carpentry. Rabbeted.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 900/2. Foliated-joint. (Carpentry.). A rabbeted joint, where one part overlies another.
