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Fucate
FU'CATE
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fucate
fucate
English
Adjective
fucate (comparative more fucate, superlative most fucate)
- (obsolete) Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.1.2.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 […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III.1.2.iii:
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, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “fucate”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.