a.; also 4–7 aureat, 6 aureait. [ad. L. aureātus decorated with gold, f. aureus: see prec. and -ATE2.]

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  1.  Golden, gold-colored.

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c. 1450.  Crt. Love, 817. With aureat seint about her sides clene.

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1599.  A. M., trans. Gabelhouer’s Bk. Physic, 378/2. This præcious aureate or goulden water.

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1845.  D. Moir, in Blackw. Mag., LVIII. 410. The aureate furze … lent its peculiar perfume.

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  † 2.  fig. Brilliant or splendid as gold, esp. in literary or rhetorical skill. Obs.

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1430.  Lydg., Chron. Troy, Prol. And of my penne the traces to correcte Whiche barrayne is of aureat lycoure.

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c. 1505.  Dunbar, Gold. Terge, viii. Zour [Homer and Cicero’s] aureat tungs had baith bene all to lyte, For to compyle that paradyce compleit.

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1625.  Purchas, Pilgrims, II. 1847. If I erre, I will beg indulgence of the Pope’s aureat magnificence.

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