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aureate
[ awr-ee-it, -eyt ]
adjective
- golden or gilded.
- brilliant; splendid.
- characterized by an ornate style of writing or speaking.
aureate
/ -ˌeɪt; ˈɔːrɪɪt /
adjective
- covered with gold; gilded
- of a golden colour
- (of a style of writing or speaking) excessively elaborate or ornate; florid
Derived Forms
- ˈܰٱԱ, noun
- ˈܰٱ, adverb
Other 51Թ Forms
- ۱·ٱ· adverb
- ۱·ٱ·Ա noun
51Թ History and Origins
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of aureate1
Example Sentences
The language here — which Walsh writes with aureate poeticism, full of vivid imagery and pointed symbolism — is what gives the show its melancholic beauty.
Bearing a golden seal, in aureate legalistic language, the documents claimed that an obscure 18th-century treaty gave the sender rights to claim her new house as his own.
But the poet may have been right after all; whatever small measure of aureate glimmer and substance here is, ultimately, fleeting.
A dusted copper heaven streaked with gold and siphoned from Klimt’s aureate imagination.
This came as something of a surprise to those whose sole experience of festivals has been knee-deep in mud, swaying arhythmically while those around either pogo or chuck pints of aureate liquid about the place.
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