fucate

English

Etymology

From Latin fūcātus, past participle of fucō.

Adjective

fucate (comparative more fucate, superlative most fucate)

1. (obsolete) Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition III, section 1, member 2, subsection 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

Latin

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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• fucate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.