fucate

Etymology

From Latin fūcātus, past participle of fucō.

Adjective

fucate (comparative more fucate, superlative most fucate)

1. (obsolete) Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.
   • 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):
     , III.1.2.iii:

     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 […].

Anagrams

• faucet

Verb

fūcāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of fūcō

References

• fucate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fucate in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• fucate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette