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▪ I. purpurate, n. Chem.|ˈpɜːpjʊərət|
[f. as purpur-ic + -ate1 1 c.]
A salt of purpuric acid.
1818Prout in Phil. Trans. CVIII. 423 On the supposition then, that it be named the purpuric acid, its compounds with different bases must be denominated purpurates. 1866Watts Dict. Chem. IV. 747 Purpurates are all distinguished by their splendid purple colour; many are gold-green by reflected light.
▪ II. purpurate, a.|ˈpɜːpjʊərət|
Also 5–6 purpurat.
[ad. L. purpurāt-us, pa. pple. of purpurāre: see next.]
1. Purple-coloured, purple; also, ‘purpled’, clothed in purple. Also fig. Obs. or arch.
c1422Hoccleve Learn to Die, Joys Heaven Min. Poems 214 The shynynges of martirs with purpurat corones of victorie. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas vii. viii, Vitellius..Used a garment that was purpurate. 1513Douglas æneis xii. Prol. 16 Aurora..In crammysin cled and granit violat, With sanguyne cape, the selvage purpurat. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 280 His Senate of purpurate Cardinals.
†b. Born in the purple; of illustrious origin.
1669Address to hopeful yng. Gentry Eng. Ep. Ded. A iv, Not their [the Nobles'] purpurate descent alone, but the unquestionable verity that the bloud is the vitals of the creature, warrants my assertion.
2. Of or pertaining to the disease purpura.
1846in Worcester and in mod. Dicts.
▪ III. † ˈpurpurate, v. Obs.
[f. ppl. stem of L. purpurāre to make purple, to clothe in purple, f. purpura purpur.]
trans. To make purple, empurple. Hence † ˈpurpurated ppl. a.
1642G. Eglisham Forerun. Rev. 15 The concavities of his Liver greene, his stomach in some places a little purpurated with a blew clammy water. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 183 Those purpurated and elated Cardinals. 1804Miniature No. 4 (1806) I. 57 Ode to Rainbow (mock-sentimental), Offspring of yonder ambient cloud, That purpurates the air. |