Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Painted; disguised with paint; hence, disguised in any way; dissembling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Painted; disguised with paint, or with false show.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete Artificially coloured; falsified, counterfeit.

Etymologies

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From Latin fūcātus, past participle of fucō.

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Examples

  • Beauty is the common object of all love, [4542] as jet draws a straw, so doth beauty love: 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; those two Venus 'twins, Eros and Anteros, are then most firm and fast.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quod non fucate ab ilio ficrij fcd ex aninio ccdimonium hic eli Omnilcii.]

    Lux in tenebris, hoc est prophetiæ donum quô Deus Ecclesiam Evangelicam, in regno Bohemiæ ... Christoph Kotter , Krystyna Poniatowska 1657

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