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fucate

fucate adjective: artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.

Adjective

fucate (comparative more fucate, superlative most fucate)

  1. (obsolete) Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.
    • virtue and honesty are great motives, and give as fair a lustre as the rest, especially if they be sincere and right, not fucate, but proceeding from true form and an incorrupt judgment […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III...

Forms of fucate

comparativemore fucate
superlativemost fucate

Origin of fucate

Borrowed from Latin fūcātus, perfect passive participle of fucō, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix).

Questions about fucate

What does fucate mean?
Fucate means artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.
What part of speech is fucate?
Fucate is an adjective.

Words near fucate in the dictionary

  1. fubus
  2. fucaceous
  3. fucalean
  4. fucan
  5. fucans
  6. fucate
  7. fucated
  8. fucc
  9. fuccboi
  10. fuccbois
  11. fucced

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