Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To paint or tinge with or as with minium.
- Of the color of minium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.
- transitive verb To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to the colour of
red lead orvermilion ; painted with vermilion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb paint with red lead or vermilion
- verb decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red
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This method of harmonizing all the arts, the intelligence, the heart and the sentiment, which came from the East, would be highly developed in the West, reaching unreachable heights in the miniate codices of the Bible and in other works of faith and of art, which flourished in Europe until the invention of the press and even afterward.
Benedict on the Liturgy: "The Faith is not only thought" 2009
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This method of harmonizing all the arts, the intelligence, the heart and the sentiment, which came from the East, would be highly developed in the West, reaching unreachable heights in the miniate codices of the Bible and in other works of faith and of art, which flourished in Europe until the invention of the press and even afterward.
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