foliate Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb hammer into thin flat foils
    • foliate metal
  2. verb decorate with leaves
  3. verb coat or back with metal foil
    • foliate glass
  4. verb number the pages of a book or manuscript
    paginate; page.
  5. verb grow leaves
    • the tree foliated in Spring
  6. adjective ornamented with foliage or foils
    foliated.
    • foliate tracery
    • a foliated capital
  7. adjective satellite (often used as a combining form) having or resembling a leaf or having a specified kind or number of leaves
    • `foliate' is combined with the prefix `tri' to form the word `trifoliate'
  8. adjective satellite (especially of metamorphic rock) having thin leaflike layers or strata
    foliated; foliaceous.

WordNet

Fo"li*ate adjective
Etymology
L. foliatus leaved, leafy, fr. folium leaf. See Foliage.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Furnished with leaves; leafy; as, a foliate stalk.
Fo"li*ate transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Foliated ; present participle & verbal noun Foliating
Definitions
  1. To beat into a leaf, or thin plate. Bacon.
  2. To spread over with a thin coat of tin and quicksilver; as, to foliate a looking-glass.

Webster 1913