deaurare

deaurare [LL] 1 to gild; b (prov.). c (fig.) to enrich, reward. d (fig.) to gloss over. e (p. ppl.) clad in gold. ~atas simulacrorum effigies Aldh. VirgP 47; c750 (v. argenteus 1a); 840 (11c) dedit ‥ unam cuppam ~atam in duobus pundis CS 430; Alfwara [ob. 1007] dedit ‥ sacerdotalia ornamenta et v marcas auri ‥ ad hec omnia ~anda Chr. Rams. 84; s1040 cassidem ex parte ~atam Fl. Worc. I 195; 1155 pro auro ad ~anda frena Pipe 4; duos libellos nostros ‥ cum duobus unciis auri, quibus ~ari possent, ‥ transmisimus Gir. Symb. I 30; 1199 (v. calcar 1b); 1242 pro pondere iiij d. ob. puri auri ad septrum B. Edwardi ~andum Liberate 16 m. 6; si lapis ‥ quo cambiatores examinant aurum pulverizetur ‥, de hoc liquore liniantur [capilli] et ~abuntur Gilb. II 77v. 2; per liberum servicium ‥ j paris calcarium †deauratariorum [? l. deauratarum] Hengham Magna 1; 1298 j cuppa de cupro †deauratus [l. deaurata] (Invent. S. Paul.) Arch. L 463; Whittlesey 169 (v. argentum 1a); 1377 (v. campanella d); 1406 currus et wherle garnit’ infra cum panno †adaureo [MS: adaur’] cla[vis] de cupr[o] †deaureo [MS: deaur’] ‥ (KRAc 406/10) Arch. LXVII 181; 1431 j ciphum argenteum stantem super tres leones parcellatim ~at’ Reg. Cant. II 439; argenteos calices quaquaversum ~atos Ferr. Kinloss 73.  b rite scelus ratus est lutum deaurare Poem S. Thom. 85; Neckam NR II 180 (v. castigate).  c c717 quantos labore proprios adquaesieris, de tantis ante tribunal aeterni regis dux futurus ~atus gaudebis (Ecgburg) Ep. Bonif. 13; Phoroneus rex, qui ‥ primus Grecorum studia ~avit Map NC IV 3 f. 45v; sine tribulatione non ~atur animus auro sapientie Neckam NR II 55.  d s1189 Ricardus ‥ matri sue ‥ honorem exhibere curavit, ut in obsequio materno quod in patrem commiserat ~atum omnibus appareret Diceto YH 68.  e Romanus pontifex ‥, collabentibus ecclesiis, ‥ non modo purpuratus sed ~atus incedit J. Sal. Pol. 624A. 2 to strip of gold or (?) to stain w. blood. Cf. deauratio 2. ~abit illud [frenum] aquila rupti federis (Proph. Merlini) G. Mon. VII 3. 3 (p. ppl. as sb. f. or m.) dory (fish). Cf. dorea. 1248 quod fieri faciant ‥ cccc pastillos, unde una pars sit de salmonibus et alia pars de turbuttis et alia pars de ~atis Cl 54; pisces scamosi aque dulcis ‥ currentis, lucii ‥, darsi, pertice, †alande [l. alause], daurate Gilb. II 95. 2; 1299 item †doracum [l. doratum] meliorem pro v d. MGL II 118.