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▪ I. roseate, a.|ˈrəʊzɪət|
Also 6–7 roseat, 7 rosiat.
[f. L. rose-us + -ate2.]
1. a. Having the pink or light crimson hue of roses; rose-coloured, rose-red, rosy.
1589Lodge Scillaes Metam. (Hunterian Cl.) 20 So maist thou..knit thy temples with a roseat twist. 1600Eng. Helicon T j, The rich adorned rayes of roseate rising morne. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 784 The morn reveals the roseate East. 1794Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxv, The setting-rays tinged their snowy summits with a roseate hue. 1820Shelley Prometh. Unb. ii. i. 25 Through yon peaks of cloud-like snow The roseate sunlight quivers. 1874Symonds Sk. Italy & Greece (1898) I. 133 The roseate whiteness of ridged snow on Alps.
Comb.1830Encycl. Metrop. (1845) XXI. 305/2 Chest and belly roseate red. 1839H. T. De la Beche Rep. Geol. Cornw. xv. 502 Among the innumerable varieties of elvans..we may notice that which is roseate-tinted.
b. In names of birds, as roseate spoonbill, roseate tern, roseate cockatoo.
(a)1785Latham Gen. Synop. Birds III. i. 16 Roseate Spoonbill, Platalea Ajaja... The plumage is a fine rose-colour. 1838Audubon Ornith. Biog. IV. 188 The Roseate Spoonbill is found for the most part along the marshy and muddy borders of estuaries. 1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 264 Roseate Spoonbill. In full plumage rosy-red, whitening on neck.
(b)1813Montagu Ornith. Dict. Suppl. s.v. Tern, The length of the Roseate Tern is only fifteen inches and a half. 1835Audubon Ornith. Biog. III. 296 Beautiful, indeed, are Terns of every kind, but the Roseate excels the rest. 1862C. A. Johns Brit. Birds 565 Roseate Terns have been discovered..in the mouth of the Clyde, Lancashire, and the Farn Islands.
(c)1877Nature 16 Aug. 336 A Roseate Cockatoo (Cacatua roseicapilla) from Australia.
2. Formed of, consisting of, roses. ? Obs.
1607Heywood Fayre Mayde Exch. Wks. 1874 II. 66 Devise sweet roseat coronets. 1630Drayton Muses' Elys. Nymphal iii. 12 The most renown'd With curious Roseat Anadems are crown'd. 1742Collins Ode Mercy 25 To thee we build a roseate bow'r. 1783O'Keefe Birth-Day 22 With roseate chaplets crown'd.
†3. Rose-scented. Obs. rare.
1667Milton P.L. v. 643 Roseat Dews dispos'd All..to rest. 1720Pope Iliad xxiii. 227 Celestial Venus hover'd o'er his Head, And roseate Unguents, heav'nly Fragrance! shed.
4. a. fig. Rosy; happy, smiling.
1873W. Black Pr. of Thule v. 77 How bright, and roseate, and happy she looked. 1887Stevenson Misadv. J. Nicholson v, At which meal the re-assembled family were to sit roseate.
b. Rose-coloured, optimistic.
1868G. Duff Pol. Surv. 195 A very roseate account of the empire. 1881Gold. Smith Lect. & Ess. 261 A persuasive person who could depict the merits of his scheme with roseate but delusive eloquence.
Hence ˈroseately adv.
1834W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) II. 556 Hope is like the first blush of dawn, roseately beautiful. 1859Chamb. Jrnl. XI. 128 The golden bars..Soon leave the earth, but linger roseately.
▪ II. ˈroseate, v. rare.
[f. prec.]
†1. intr. (See quot.) Obs.—0
1611Florio, Roseggiare,..to roseate, to flower or bud as Roses.
2. trans. To render roseate or rosy.
1852W. Jerdan Autobiog. II. ix. 100 He was a fine example of a rubicund Scotchman; fattened and roseated in London. 1898Talmage in Christian Her. 20 Apr. 344/4 The millennial June which shall roseate all the earth. |