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Foliated   Listen
verb
Foliate  v. t.  (past & past part. foliated; pres. part. foliating)  
1.
To beat into a leaf, or thin plate.
2.
To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.


adjective
Foliated  adj.  
1.
Having leaves, or leaflike projections; as, a foliated shell.
2.
(Arch.) Containing, or consisting of, foils; as, a foliated arch.
3.
(Min.) Characterized by being separable into thin plates or folia; as, graphite has a foliated structure.
4.
(Geol.) Laminated, but restricted to the variety of laminated structure found in crystalline schist, as mica schist, etc.; schistose.
5.
Spread over with an amalgam of tin and quicksilver.
Foliated telluium. (Min.) See Nagyagite.





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"Foliated" Quotes from Famous Books



... walk, and admire on each occasion the vast proportions of the interior, the severe decoration of the walls, traced with broad foliated pattern and wainscoted with books of reference as high as hand can reach; the dread tribunal of librarians and keepers in session down yonder, on a kind of judgment-seat, at the end of the avenue whose carpet deadens all ...
— The Ink-Stain, Complete • Rene Bazin
... the Science and Art series:—"The chair has a high back, round in shape, and is entirely covered with plaques of ivory arranged in panels carved in high relief with scenes from the Gospels and with figures of saints. The plaques have borders with foliated ornaments, birds and animals; flowers and fruits filling the intermediate spaces. Du Sommerard names amongst the most remarkable subjects, the Annunciation, the Adoration of the Wise Men, the Flight into Egypt, and the Baptism of Our Lord." The chair has also been described ...
— Illustrated History of Furniture - From the Earliest to the Present Time • Frederick Litchfield
... void into which I looked. On every side I beheld beautiful inorganic forms, of unknown texture, and colored with the most enchanting hues. These forms presented the appearance of what might be called, for want of a more specific definition, foliated clouds of the highest rarity; that is, they undulated and broke into vegetable formations, and were tinged with splendors compared with which the gilding of our autumn woodlands is as dross compared with gold. Far away into the illimitable distance stretched long avenues of these gaseous forests, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I., No. 3, January 1858 - A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics • Various
... that far time that shed cheer through the centuries. They are not the grandiose affairs of the Renaissance whose voluptuous development contains the arrogant assurance of beauty matured. They do not crown a column or trail themselves in foliated scrolls; but are just as Nature meant them to be, unaffected bits of colour and grace, upspringing from the sod. In the cathedral at Berne is a happy example of the use of these sweet flowers, as they appear at the feet of the sacred group, and as they carry the eye into the sky by means ...
— The Tapestry Book • Helen Churchill Candee


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