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▪ I. foliate, a.|ˈfəʊlɪət|
[ad. L. foliāt-us leaved, f. folium leaf: see -ate.]
†1. Beaten out into a thin sheet or foil. foliate gold = leaf-gold. Obs.
1626Bacon Sylva §293 Gold Foliate, or any Metall Foliate, cleaveth. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. ii. iv. 79 This attraction have wee tried..in gold and silver foliate. 1819H. Busk Vestriad i. 452 On foliate gold his aching head was laid.
†b. ? Consisting of laminæ. Obs.
1683Salmon Doron Med. i. xxvii. 334 The which is called the foliate Earth.
2. Resembling a leaf; leaf-life.
1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus ii. 40 The leaves and foliate works are commonly thus contrived. 1846Dana Zooph. 433 Coalescing into a solid plate, without branches above (foliate).
b. Geom. foliate curve; also foliate quasi-n.: see quot. 1796.
1715A. de Moivre in Phil. Trans. XXIX. 330 The Foliate is exactly quadrable, the whole Leaf thereof being but one third of the Square of AB. 1796Hutton Math. Dict. (1815) I. 533 Foliate, a curve of the 2d order..consisting of two infinite legs crossing each other, forming a kind of leaf.
3. Bot.
a. Furnished with leaves.
1677Coles, Foliate, leaved. 1721–90Bailey, Foliate, Leaved, or having Leaves, as, a foliate stalk. 1866Treas. Bot., Foliate, clothed with leaves.
b. Having (a specified number of) leaflets.
1840Paxton Bot. Dict., Foliate, when a leaf is divided into leaflets, it is called 1, 2, 3, 5, or 10-foliate, according to the number of leaflets.
▪ II. foliate, v.|ˈfəʊlɪeɪt|
[f. L. foli-um + -ate.]
†1. trans. To beat (metal) to a leaf or foil.
1704–21Newton Optics (ed. 3) 140 If Gold be foliated and held between your Eye and the Light, the Light looks blue.
b. intr. To split into leaves or laminæ.
1798Greville in Phil. Trans. LXXXVIII. 414 Other parts appear to foliate. 1836Caldcleugh in Foreign Q. Rev. XVII. 15 [It] foliates at its surface..and becomes a friable and very light kind of stone.
2. trans. To foil (glass); to silver.
1665Hooke Microgr. 83 If you foliate that part of a Glass⁓ball that is to reflect an Iris. 1818Blackw. Mag. III. 614 The lens..a peculiar part of which he intended to foliate.
3. intr. To put forth leaves.
1775Romans Nat. Hist. Florida 7 This tardy tree budded, foliated, blossomed. 1893Q. [Couch] Delect. Duchy 162 The ash was foliating on the 29th of April.
4. trans. To decorate with foils (see foil n.1 2 b).
1812–6J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art I. 136 There seems to have been little if any attempt at feathering or foliating the heads of Norman doors. 1835Willis Arch. Mid. Ages 45 There is a manifest distinction between foiling an arch and foliating it. [He explains that a ‘foiled arch’ is one indented into a number of small arches; a ‘foliated arch’ is a plain arch with a foiled arch placed below it. But his distinction is seldom recognised.] 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. i. 13 The Arabs pointed and foliated the arch.
5. trans. To mark the folios or leaves of (a volume, etc.) with consecutive numbers.
1846–7W. Maskell Mon. Rit. I. p. cxix, It is regularly foliated to the end, from i. to c. iiij. 1848Halliwell Acc. Vernon MS. 3 It numbers ff. 412 and 8 ab init.; ff. 311–318, 403–412, not foliated.
Hence ˈfoliating ppl. a.
1835Willis Arch. Mid. Ages 45 This foliating arch continued..to be treated as an independent order. |