foliating

Verb

foliate (third-person singular simple present foliates, present participle foliating, simple past and past participle foliated)

1. (transitive) To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.
2. (transitive) To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver.
   • to foliate a looking-glass
3. (transitive) To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).
   • All European architecture, bad and good, old and new, is derived from Greece through Rome, and coloured and perfected from the East. […] Now observe: those old Greeks gave the shaft; Rome gave the arch; the Arabs pointed and foliated the arch.1851, John Ruskin, “The Quarry”, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 13
4. (obsolete, transitive) To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.
   • [I]f Gold be foliated and held betvveen your Eye and the Light, the Light looks blue, and therefore maſſy Gold lets into its Body the blue-making rays to be reflected to and fro vvithin it till they be ſtopt and ſtifled, vvhilſt it reflects the yellovv-making outvvards, and thereby looks yellovv.1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “[The First Book of Opticks. Part II.] Prop[osition] X. Prob[lem] V. [Exper[iment] XVII.]”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours...
5. (intransitive) To split into layers or leaves.
6. (intransitive) Of a plant: to produce leaves.

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