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aureate definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: elaborately or excessively ornamented; "flamboyant handwriting"; "the senator's florid speech" [syn: aureate, florid, flamboyant]
2: having the deep slightly brownish color of gold; "long aureate (or golden) hair"; "a gold carpet" [syn: aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Etymology: Middle English aureat, from Medieval Latin aureatus decorated with gold, from Latin aureus Date: 15th century 1. of a golden color or brilliance <aureate light> 2. marked by grandiloquent and rhetorical style <aureate diction>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 golden, gold-coloured. 2 resplendent. 3 (of a language) highly ornamented. Etymology: ME f. LL aureatus f. L aureus golden f. aurum gold

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Aureate Au"re*ate, a. [L. aureatus, fr. aureus golden, fr. aurum gold.] Golden; gilded. --Skelton.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Golden, yellow, gold-colored.