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6 words match “AUREATE”

AUREATE a.
Golden; gilded. Skelton.
BACCALAUREATE n. 3 definitions
A baccalaureate sermon. [U.S.]
LAUREATE a. 3 definitions
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…
LAUREATESHIP n.
State, or office, of a laureate.
LAURELED a.
Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate. [Written also laurelled.]
POET n.
arth, from earth to heaven. Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. Dryden. Poet laureate. See under Laureate.