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Purpurat, Purporat, Purperat, adj. Also: purpurate. [Late ME purpurat (1422), -ate (Lydgate), L. purpurātus, p.p. of purpurāre to make purple.] a. Purple, purple-coloured. b. fig. Of poetry or eloquence: Brilliant, splendid. —a. 1513 Doug. xii Prol. 16.
Aurora … cled … With sangwyne cape, the selvage purpurat 1569 Treas. Acc. XII 175.
Ane elne of purporat crammesie sergeb. a1500 Henr. Fab. 58 (Makc.).
This nobil clerk Esop … In gay meteyr & in facund purpurat [Bann. In gay metir facound and purperat; Ch. purpurate] … wryt his buk
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