aureate

American  

[awr-ee-it, -eyt] / ˈɔr i ɪt, -ˌeɪt /

adjective

1. golden or gilded.

2. brilliant; splendid.

3. characterized by an ornate style of writing or speaking.

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aureate British  

/ -ˌeɪt, ˈɔːrɪɪt /

adjective

1. covered with gold; gilded

2. of a golden colour

3. (of a style of writing or speaking) excessively elaborate or ornate; florid

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Other Word Forms

• aureately adverb
• aureateness noun

Etymology

Origin of aureate

1400–50; late Middle English aureat < Late Latin aureātus decorated with gold, equivalent to Latin aure ( us ) golden, of gold ( aur ( um ) gold + -eus adj. suffix) + -ātus -ate ¹

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.

From New York Times • Nov. 16, 2021

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.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2021

A dusted copper heaven streaked with gold and siphoned from Klimt’s aureate imagination.

From New York Times • Sep. 12, 2017

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.

From The Guardian • Nov. 8, 2012

This perversion of rhetoric which considered it as concerned only with style, or aureate language, was not restricted to the school books.

From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Clark, Donald Lemen