Definition of Lauriate
Lau"re*ate (?), a. [L.
laureatus, fr. laurea laurel tree, fr. laureus
of laurel, fr. laurus laurel: cf. F. lauréat.
Cf. Laurel.] Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
Chaucer.
To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid
lies. Milton.
Soft on her lap her laureate son
reclines. Pope.
Poet laureate. (b) One who
received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and
rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being
presented with a wreath of laurel. [Obs.] (b)
Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose business was
to compose an ode annually for the king's birthday, and other
suitable occasions; now, a poet officially distinguished by such
honorary title, the office being a sinecure. It is said this title
was first given in the time of Edward IV. [Eng.]
Lau"re*ate, n. One crowned with
laurel; a poet laureate. "A learned laureate."
Cleveland.
Lau"re*ate (?), v. i. [imp. &
p. p. Laureated (?); p. pr. & vb.
n. Laureating (?).] To honor with a wreath of
laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English
universities.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the
Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as
dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal
funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had
the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and
cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense
which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the
aspect of a national crime.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- Crowned, or decked, with laurel - Chaucer
Quotations
*To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. - Milton
*Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. - Pope
- One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. A learned laureate - Cleveland
- (intransitive): To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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