单词 | purpurate |
释义 | purpuraten. Chemistry. Any of a series of salts, typically purple or red, of an anion (C8H4N5O6)−, which contains two heteroaromatic rings. Cf. purpuric acid n. at purpuric adj. 1. ΚΠ 1818 W. Prout in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 108 423 On the supposition then, that it be named the purpuric acid, its compounds with different bases must be denominated purpurates. 1866 H. Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 747 Purpurates are all distinguished by their splendid purple colour; many are gold-green by reflected light. 1933 S. W. Cole Pract. Physiol. Chem. (ed. 9) xiii. 304 Murexide is ammonium purpurate. 2003 Cement & Concrete Res. 33 623/2 Murexide (ammonium purpurate) was used as the indicator for detecting the calcium endpoint. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). purpurateadj. 1. a. Purple in colour; †clothed in purple (obsolete). Also: †blood-coloured, bloodstained (obsolete). Also figurative. Now archaic and poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > [adjective] purpurine1300 purpurec1400 purple1415 purpurate?c1422 purple-coloured1567 porphyrite1601 purpie1651 purpurean1656 blattean1658 purpureal1708 porphyrous1798 Babylonian1846 society > faith > artefacts > vestments > clothing of particular functionaries > [adjective] > of cardinal: clothed in purple purpled1561 purpurated1613 purpurate1664 ?c1422 T. Hoccleve Ars Sciendi Mori in Minor Poems (1970) i. 214 Beholde eeke the shynynges of martirs with purpurat corones of victorie. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) vii. 960 Vitellius..Vsed a garnement that was purpurat. a1500 (?c1440) J. Lydgate Horse, Goose & Sheep (Lansd.) 304 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 552 (MED) The Roial Lambe of colour purpurat..wessh a-wey all venym serpentyne On Calvarie whan He for man was ded, With His pur blood purpurat & red. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid xii. Prol. 16 Aurora..In crammysin cled and granit violat, With sanguyne cape, the selvage purpurat. 1569 in C. T. McInnes Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1970) XII. 175 Ane elne of purporat crammesie serge. 1616 P. Simson Short Compend Hist. First Ten Persecutions III. vii. 51 The time was nowe come wherein the purpurate Harlot was to sit vpon the Citie of seuen Mountaines. 1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 280 His Senate of purpurate Cardinals. 1703 T. De Laune Plea for Non-conformists 1 As Head of the Church..had..a purpurate Synod, or Princes in Purple, to assist him. 1893 F. Thompson Poems 75 And dipped its cup in the purpurate shine When the eastern conduits ran with wine. 1925 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 16 Jan. 24/3 Dusk draped its purpurate voile over the svelte body of day. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > royalty > [adjective] > royally born kinelyeOE kine-bornOE purpurate1669 king-born1670 born to (also in) (the) purple1681 porphyrogenea1849 throne-born1855 porphyry-borna1940 1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry Ep. Ded. sig. A iv Not their [sc. the Nobles] purpurate descent alone, but the unquestionable verity that the bloud is the vitals of the creature, warrants my assertion. 2. Of language or rhetoric: rich; elaborate, ornate. Cf. purple adj. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adjective] overwrittenOE flourished1303 orne?a1425 ornatea1450 purpuratec1475 gallant1484 flourishinga1552 gorgeous1561 coloured1571 flowerya1616 ornated1630 flosculent1646 luscious1651 chromatic1652 romantic1653 gaudy1655 florid1656 blooming1685 bloomy1685 dressy1713 colouring1807 colorific1812 emblazoned1813 embroidered1868 purple1941 c1475 Court of Sapience (Trin. Cambr.) (1927) l. 1913 (MED) Whoso..wold conceue the colour purpurate Of rethoryke, go he to Tria Sunt And to Galfryde, the poete lawreate. a1500 in H. A. Person Cambr. Middle Eng. Lyrics (1953) 48 I were upon my bake The first mysshape cote of vnpullischyd speche That euer my maister made whos colour is ryght blak To dye with tungges purpurat wold god ȝe wold hym teche. a1500 R. Henryson in tr. Æsop Fables Prol. l. 58 in Poems (1981) 5 In gay metir, and in facound purpurate. 1895 ‘F. Anstey’ Lyre & Lancet 555 Behold the Sun-Burst proclaim, in purpurate effulgence, Demos dawning, and the Darkness done. 1973 Winnipeg Free Press 8 Dec. 22/3 There were books that were so refined in style, so gem-encrusted in structure and purpurate in vocabulary that it was quite hard work to read them. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [adjective] > purpura purpurate1730 purpuric1834 purpurous1844 Schönlein1876 1730 T. Fuller Exanthematologia 131 The same Author informs us..that in some Places of Cimbria, lying to the North Sea, there reigns an annual purpurate Fever. 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. Purpurate, relating to purpura. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † purpuratev. Obsolete. transitive. To make purple; to tinge with purple. Cf. empurple v. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > purple or purpleness > turning purple > make purple [verb (transitive)] purple?a1475 corkc1485 impurpure1554 bepurple1582 empurple1590 violet1623 purpurize1632 purpurate1642 1642 G. Eglisham Fore-runner of Revenge (new ed.) 15 The concavities of his Liver greene, his stomach in some places a little purpurated with a blew clammy water. 1750 A. Collins Suppl. Peerage Eng. I. 355 He bequeathed his best gown, of Cloth of Gold purpurated, for to make sacerdotal Vestments. 1804 Ode to Rainbow in Miniature (1806) No. 4. I. 57 (mock-sentimental) Offspring of yonder ambient cloud, That purpurates the air. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < n.1818adj.?c1422v.1642 |
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