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laureate |
5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, n. One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. ``A learned laureate.'' --Cleveland. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Laureated}; p. pr & vb n. {Laureating}.] To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, a. [L. laureatus fr laurea laurel tree, fr laureus of laurel, fr laurus laurel: cf F. laur['e]at. Cf {Laurel}.] Crowned, or decked, with laurel. --Chaucer. To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. --Milton. Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. --Pope. {Poet laureate}. b One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel. [Obs.] b Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose business was to compose an ode annually for the king's birthday, and other suitable occasions; now a poet officially distinguished by such honorary title, the office being a sinecure. It is said this title was first given in the time of Edward IV [Eng.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: laureate adj : worthy of the greatest honor or distinction; "The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag"- James Traub n : someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: LAUREATE, adj Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.
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