inaurate

The verb is first attested in 1623, the adjective in 1826; borrowed from Latin inaurātus, perfect passive participle of inaurō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix) and -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

inaurate (third-person singular simple present inaurates, present participle inaurating, simple past and past participle inaurated)

1. (obsolete) To cover with gold; to gild.

   to inaurate a chalice

inaurate (not comparable)

1. (rare) Covered with gold; gilded.

• “inaurate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Ituraean

inaurāte

1. vocative masculine singular of inaurātus