rosare

rosare [backformed from LL rosatus, CL rosa+-are] 1 to make rosy, bestow a characteristic of the rose (e. g. beauty or redness), to cause to become red or ruddy (w. health, success, or shame), to make to bloom or blush (also fig.). cum stes consilio, permitte loqui seniores, / ipse licet fueris lingue ratione rosatus [gl.: facundus] D. Bec. 120; prospera ‥ / ‥ te non moveant, licet hec hominem magis inflent, / elatosque rosent in mundo Ib. 270; si fueris tutus quod te sint dampna secuta / per socium pictum vel amicum larveolatum / os, mens subsileat faciesque rosetur amici, / dum locus et tempus subeant quibus illa rependas Ib. 827; ne rosa credatur urticis velle rosari Ib. 2089. 2 to paint or decorate with representation of a rose. 1238 Petro pictori pro iij fenestris dealbandis et lineandis et circa fenestram quo murus fractus fuit, et ~andis similiter ad taschiam, iiij s. et vj d. KR Ac 476/3. 3 (pr. ppl. as adj.): a rose-bearing. b (fig.) blooming with health. c blushing. a paciens est tibi spina rosans Gower VC VI 1358.  b quere tibi vernas prudentes, mente fideles, / purpureas facies, et dulcia verba rosantes D. Bec. 2262.  c hostis ‥ / sepius ore rosans odii fert semina mente D. Bec. 631. 4 (p. ppl. as adj.) of or deriving from roses. fetentis lotii lustramentum ‥ in ~atum [s. rosa ab specie floris nuncupata, quod rutulanti colore rubeat, on gerosodne] nectaris mutatur odorem Aldh. VirgP 35. 5 flavoured or scented with distilled rose petals, usu. as confection or medicine: a (vinum ~atum, also ellipt.). b (aqua ~ata). c (succarum ~atum). d (~ata novella) sort of electuary. a vinum rosetum [v. l. rosatum, gl. rosé] Neckam Ut. 98; 1236 vina ‥ ~ata (v. florare 2b); 1242 uno dolio vini Wasconie ~ati Liberate 16 m. 12; vinum conditum fit artificialiter ex admixtione aromatum tam specierum quam herbarum ut patet in vino salviato, in vino ~ato ‥ et est illud vinum conveniens tam in potu quam in medicina Bart. Angl. XVII 187; wyne, ‥ rosetum, claretum CathA.  b s1188 fecit templum Domini aqua ~ata intus et exterius ‥ lavari G. Hen. II 41; adde aquam ~atam Gilb. I 216v. 2; dissolvantur omnes in aqua ~a Bacon V 102; 1286 pro aqua ~aca ad vijxx et xiiij libras zukare rosace Rec. Wardr. 552; 1307 pro aqua ~ata de Damasc. lb xl, iiij li. (KR Ac) EHR LXVII 173.  c 1226 libram de zukaro ~ato Cl II 92b; 1252 pro duabus libris et dim. zucar’ rosat’ xx d. KR Ac 349/10; 1274 pro iij libris zuchare rosete et violete ‥ iij s. Househ. Henry 413; 1286 pro pulvere empto ad faciendam zukaram ~acam et pro aqua rosaca Rec. Wardr. 552; 1290 in xiiij libris sucri rosecti ix s. iiij d. in v libris sucri violecti iij s. iiij d. Doc. W. Abb. Westm. 184.  d post minutionem dant ‥ ~atam no[vellam] Gilb. I 53v. 2; 1252 pro viij li. ~ate novelle, v s. iiij d. KR Ac 349/10; detur sibi coclear unum statim de ~ata novella mane et sero Gad. 13. 1; 1286 pro pulveribus et aliis diversis necessariis emptis ad faciendas liij libras de ~aca novella in platis de zukara regis Rec. Wardr. 552; pro factura xxij librarum ~ace novelle molle de zukara regis, xj s. iij d. Ib..