?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 84 ^v Þe nature of þe cauerne is signified..with colourate inieccions i. castyngz yn.

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. ii. 145 Light is intinged not only with Colours, which it pervades, but also with those, which it only superficially toucheth upon, provided the Colorate body be compact enough to repercuss it.

1666 D. Coxe Let. 5 Feb. in R. Boyle Corr. (2001) III. 53 Some [Stones] whereof are very Superficiall, & Slight, giving us no insight into their nature as placing a Colourate powder glasse or Tinctare under Transparent glasse or Christall.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 801 Corporeal, Figurate and Colorate.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 171 Had the Tunicles and Humors of the Eye..been colorate.

1791 J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. Colorate, coloured, died.

1830 Casket 5 475 Base split, colorate, lobes divaricate obtuse.

1914 J. M. Robertson Elizabethan Lit. ii. 26 The models for this sonorous and colorate style were to be found in Latin.

1919 Field Museum of Nat. Hist. Jan. 245 In autumnal maturity with colorate leaves and ripe fruit.

1984 Lindbergia 9 170/2 Marginal cells (decolourate or colourate).

1528 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) IV. 124 Thai micht have, be colorat wayis of brokin menn, eschewit the subjectioune of ȝour officiaris.

1567 in C. Innes Registrum Honoris de Morton (1853) I. 22 In making of the saidis proclamationis hir Maiestie haid na coullorat meaning.

a1605 R. Bannatyne Jrnl. Trans. in Scotl. (1806) 167 He wald have schifted the mater be some colorat meinis.

1582 J. Colville Declar. Causis repair Hienes Presence sig. A.v The K. Maiestie hes bene persuadit to allow that the Ministeris suld be put at, not plainlye bot indirectly & coloratly.

c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1825) 30 Sum Inglishmen war directit to Queyne Marie culloratlie [1804 ed. coloratly], as thoght thay had bene hir freyndis.

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 37/2 When the water is therof coloratede [Ger. entferbt].

1639 J. Woodall Surgeons Mate (rev. ed.) 264 To colorate, to corrodate, conglutinate likewise: Coagmentate, coadunate, whereby to win the prize.

a1702 J. Frazer Deuteroskopia (1707) 23 The Spirits, Humours, and Vapours, which of themselves when so stirred..can colorate External Objects, far beyond any Painter, insensibly to the Beholder.

1898 Catholic World Oct. 60 So arranging and colorating the several details that each of them shall have its due proportion, its rightful prominence, and its proper place.

1938 Proc. Musical Assoc. 65 27 Here we have..a descant which..colorates in the second part of the composition its own version of the first part.

2004 S. Halas & T. Durakiewicz in P. A. de Groot Handbk. Stable Isotope Analyt. Techniques I. xxxix. 863 Baking of the ceramic parts at 700°C in air may be the next step, if their surfaces still seem to be colorated by a dark contaminant.