Aureate Definition

ôrē-ĭt
adjective
Of a golden color; gilded.
American Heritage
Golden; gilded.
Webster's New World
Inflated and pompous in style.
American Heritage
Splendid or brilliant, often affectedly so.
Webster's New World

Golden in color or shine.

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Origin of Aureate

  • Middle English aureat from Late Latin aureātus from aureus golden from aurum gold

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Aureate Sentence Examples

  • In language they are still Scottish; if they show any southern affectations, it is (all echoes of the older aureate style notwithstanding) the affectation of Tudor and Elizabethan English.

  • In our own day, when the literary medium of Scotland is identical with that of England, the term Scottish literature has been reserved for certain dialectal revivals, more or less bookish in origin, and often as artificial and as unrelated to existing conditions as the most " aureate " and Chaucerian " Ynglis " of the 1 5th century was to the popular speech of that time.

  • Of the prose books named the Complaynt of Scotlande is the most remarkable example of aureate Middle Scots, the prose analogue of the verse of the " Chaucerians."

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Words Starting With

AAUAUR

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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aureate

Words Starting With A and Ending With E

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