adj.
au·re·ate | \ ˈȯr-ē-ət \
1 : of a golden color or brilliance aureate light
2 : marked by grandiloquent and rhetorical style aureate diction
[Jez Burrows, in conversation.]
Lexicon
n.
- the action of listening to sounds from the heart, lungs, or other organs, typically with a stethoscope, as a part of medical diagnosis.
[Solaris — Stanisław Lem]
n.
- a song traditionally sung by Venetian gondoliers
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a musical composition in the style of a barcarole
[“An emphasis Falls into Furniture” — Barbara Guest]
n.
- Bruit, also called vascular murmur, is the abnormal sound generated by turbulent flow of blood in an artery due to either an area of partial obstruction or a localized high rate of blood flow through an unobstructed artery. Any of several generally abnormal sounds heard on auscultation
- [Archaic] noise, din
- [Archaic] report, rumor
- collective noun for a group of barons
tr. v.
- report, rumor (usually used with about, as in “word of his imminent dismissal was bruited about”)
adjective
LITERARY
foggy and wintry.
[H is for Hawk — Helen Macdonald]
adj.
Containing or composed of calcium carbonate. Chalky.
[“Clarice Lispector,” from Coming to Writing and Other Essays — Hélène Cixous]
n.
1. a cannon in billiards or pool
v.
1. make a carom; strike and rebound
[The Absolute Book — Elizabeth Knox]
n. (Architecture)
- a stone carving of a draped female figure, used as a pillar to support the entablature of a Greek or Greek-style building.
[Moby-Dick; or, The Whale — Herman Melville]
n.
- Specious or excessively subtle reasoning intended to rationalize or mislead.
- The determination of right and wrong in questions of conduct or conscience by analyzing cases that illustrate general ethical rules.
[A Reader on Reading — Alberto Manguel]