Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of a purple color.
- n. A salt of purpuric acid.
- Of or pertaining to purpura; purpuric.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to purpura.
- n. A salt of purpuric acid.
WordNet 3.0
- v. color purple
Examples
“Among them may be mentioned a red purpurate of lead, a purple-red and a rose-coloured purpurate of mercury, a purple-red purpurate of silver, a dark red-brown purpurate of strontia, a crystalline red purpurate of cobalt, a scarlet purpurate of platinum, a yellow purpurate of zinc, and a green purpurate of baryta.”
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
“If a solution of picric acid be boiled with a strong solution of potassium cyanide, a deep red liquid is produced, owing to the formation of potassium iso-purpurate, which crystallises in small reddish-brown plates with a beetle-green lustre.”
“On adding barium chloride to either of the above salts, a vermilion-red precipitate was formed, consisting of barium iso-purpurate.”
“This, by reaction with ammonium chloride, gives ammonium iso-purpurate”
“_Champi_, which draped the boy who bore it, I knew not why, in its own bright colour, purpurate and charming.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘purpurate’.
-
cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 414 more...
whichbe This word makes me giggle. Oct 28, 2008