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1 roseare [CL roseus+-are], to make rosy. b to make red w. blood. candida morus erat niveique puerpera fructus / sed roseat bissum, purpura poma cruor. condempnabuntne hoc verbum ‘roseat’? Gerv. Melkley AV 101; locum aurore roseatum ostendit J. Howd. Cant. 374.  b Stephanus, flos martyrum primus, roseatur, / Nicholaus, presulum gemma, decoratur Garl. Epith. VII Summa 43; cum grassatur cassis in capite, / roseantur genarum semite / ‥ spina ‥ dum frontem obumbras roseam / gratulare te sic sanguineam J. Howd. Ph. 149.
2 roseare [AN roser], to sprinkle. cum loquuntur hunc certe labia / ‥ / roseantur ipso praecordia / velut veris rore rosaria J. Howd. Ph. 383.

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