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aureate, a.|ˈɔːriːət|
Also 4–7 aureat, 6 aureait.
[ad. L. aureātus decorated with gold, f. aureus: see prec. and -ate2.]
1. Golden, gold-coloured.
c1450Crt. Love 817 With aureat seint about her sides clene. 1599A. M. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physic 378/2 This præcious aureate or goulden water. 1845D. Moir in Blackw. Mag. LVIII. 410 The aureate furze..lent its peculiar perfume.
2. fig. Brilliant or splendid as gold, esp. in literary or rhetorical skill; spec. designating or characteristic of a highly ornamental literary style or diction (see quots.).
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy Prol., And of my penne the traces to correcte Whiche barrayne is of aureat lycoure. c1505Dunbar Gold. Terge viii, Zour [Homer and Cicero's] aureat tungs had baith bene all to lyte, For to compyle that paradyce compleit. 1625Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1847 If I erre, I will beg indulgence of the Pope's aureat magnificence. 1819T. Campbell Spec. Brit. Poets I. ii. 93 The prevailing fault of English diction, in the fifteenth century, is redundant ornament, and an affectation of anglicising Latin words. In this pedantry and use of ‘aureate terms’, the Scottish versifiers went even beyond their brethren of the south. 1908G. G. Smith in Camb. Hist. Eng. Lit. II. iv. 93 The chief effort was to transform the simpler word and phrase into ‘aureate’ mannerism, to ‘illumine’ the vernacular. 1919J. C. Mendenhall Aureate Terms i. 7 Such long and supposedly elegant words have been dubbed ‘aureate terms’, because..they represent a kind of verbal gilding of literary style. The phrase may be traced back..in the sense of long Latinical words of learned aspect, used to express a comparatively simple idea. 1936C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love vi. 252 This peculiar brightness..is the final cause of the whole aureate style. |