deaurate

English

Verb

deaurate (third-person singular simple present deaurates, present participle deaurating, simple past and past participle deaurated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To gild.
    • 1598, Francis Meres, The Sinners Guyde. A Worke Contayning the Whole Regiment of a Christian Life:
      it is not lawfull that any thing should be in the liuely Temple of our ſoule, which is not eyther charitie, or ouer-guilded & deaurated with charity

Adjective

deaurate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) gilded

Latin

Verb

deaurāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of deaurō
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