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English
Etymology
From Latin fūcātus, past participle of fucō.
Adjective
fucate (comparative more fucate, superlative most fucate)
- (obsolete) Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.
1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection iii:virtue and honesty are great motives, and give as fair a lustre as the rest, especially if they be sincere and right, not fucate, but proceeding from true form and an incorrupt judgment […].
Anagrams
Latin
Verb
fūcāte
- second-person plural present active imperative of fūcō
References
- “fucate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- fucate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- fucate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.