Word of the Day for Friday, July 29, 2011
aureate \AWR-ee-it\, adjective:
1. Characterized by an ornate style of writing or speaking.
2. Golden or gilded.
3. Brilliant; splendid.
The B.O. and most of the rest of the country has found that an aureate speech does not necessarily make a good presidency; the President must lead, and he is profoundly incapable of doing any such thing!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
"Nothing in the aureate language of the English poets can match the splendid virtuosity of Ane Ballat of Our Lady."-- Whitney French Bolton, The Middle Ages
"Scholasms, by the way, may be divided into two classes: aureate terms and inkhorn terms."-- Charles Harrington Elster, There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life
Aureate originally comes from the Latin aureus, "golden."
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