Foliate

Quick meaning: Foliate is an adjective meaning Of or relating to leaves.

Meaning

Of or relating to leaves.

More Meanings

1. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
2. Of a plant: having leaves.
3. Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
4. (geology) Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
5. (geometry) A logocyclic curve.
6. 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.
7. (obsolete) In the form of a foil or thin sheet.

Example Sentences

foliate gold

to foliate a looking-glass

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.

In the Laureat draughts of ſculpture and picture, the leaves and foliate vvorks are commonly thus contrived, vvhich is but in imitation of the Pulvinaria, and ancient pillovv-vvork, obſervable in Ionick peeces, about columns, temples and altars.

Word Forms

• foliates
• foliating
• foliated

Synonyms for foliate

Depending on context, synonyms include foliar, foliaceous, leaf-shaped, leafy, leaved, foliated.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include leafy, stratified, paginate, bedded, foliolate, foliose.

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