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Foliate

//ˈfəʊliət// adj, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to leaves.
  2. 2
    Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.

    "In the Laureat draughts of ſculpture and picture, the leaves and foliate vvorks are commonly thus contrived, vvhich is but in imitation of the Pulvinaria, and ancient pillovv-vvork, obſervable in Ionick peeces, about columns, temples and altars."

  3. 3
    Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.; Of a curve: having two infinite branches with a common asymptote, and a leaf-shaped loop.
  4. 4
    Of a plant: having leaves.
  5. 5
    Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
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  1. 6
    Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
  2. 7
    In the form of a foil or thin sheet. obsolete

    "foliate gold"

Adjective
  1. 1
    (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata wordnet
  2. 2
    (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves wordnet
  3. 3
    ornamented with foliage or foils wordnet
Noun
  1. 1
    A logocyclic curve.
Verb
  1. 1
    To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate. transitive
  2. 2
    grow leaves wordnet
  3. 3
    To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver. transitive

    "to foliate a looking-glass"

  4. 4
    number the pages of a book or manuscript wordnet
  5. 5
    To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”). transitive

    "All European architecture, bad and good, old and new, is derived from Greece through Rome, and coloured and perfected from the East. […] Now observe: those old Greeks gave the shaft; Rome gave the arch; the Arabs pointed and foliated the arch."

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  1. 6
    coat or back with metal foil wordnet
  2. 7
    To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet. obsolete, transitive

    "[I]f Gold be foliated and held betvveen your Eye and the Light, the Light looks blue, and therefore maſſy Gold lets into its Body the blue-making rays to be reflected to and fro vvithin it till they be ſtopt and ſtifled, vvhilſt it reflects the yellovv-making outvvards, and thereby looks yellovv."

  3. 8
    decorate with leaves wordnet
  4. 9
    To split into layers or leaves. intransitive
  5. 10
    hammer into thin flat foils wordnet
  6. 11
    Of a plant: to produce leaves. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Learned borrowing from Latin foliātus (“having leaves, leafy, leaved”) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix)), a participial adjective derived from folium (“leaf; (Late Latin) leaf or sheet of paper”) + -ātus (participial adjective-forming suffix) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃- (“blossom, flower”) or *dʰelh₁- (“to be green”)).

Etymology 2

From a substantivation of the above adjective. Equivalent to folia + -ate (noun-forming suffix).

Etymology 3

From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix) (more at etymology 1)

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