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deaurate en · VERB · etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin deaurātus, perfect passive participle of deaurō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix).

(obsolete, transitive) To gild.
- 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 1598, Francis Meres, The Sinners Guyde. A Worke Contayning the Whole Regiment of a Christian Life:

Spelling	Features	Source
deaurated	Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic
deaurated	Tense=Past	lexicographic
deaurates	Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres	lexicographic
deaurating	Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part	lexicographic

From Middle English deaurat, from Latin deaurātus, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

(not-comparable, obsolete) Gilded.
- Of ſo eye bewitching a deaurate ruddie dy is the skincoat of this Lantſgraue, that happy is that nobleman who for his colours in armory can neereſt imitate his chimicall temper, nay which is more, if a man ſhould tell you that god Himens ſaffron colour’d robe were made of nothing but red herrings skins, you would hardly beleeue him: […] 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 36: