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Definition of Laureating
1. laureate [v] - See also: laureate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laureating
Literary usage of Laureating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of English Poetry from the Twelfth to the Close of the Sixteenth Century by Thomas Warton, William Carew Hazlitt, Richard Price (1871)
"... in your (lead, the authority of creating and laureating poets in the faid
college," &c. ..."
2. Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani (1899)
"... under Valentinian I. The mediaeval and Renaissance custom of " laureating "
poets on the Capitol was certainly derived from Domitian's institution. ..."
3. The History of English Poetry, from the Eleventh to the Seventeenth Century by Thomas Warton (1870)
"... according to a ' custom practised in my time at Rome, delegated to me and my
successors, in your stead, ' the authority of creating and laureating poets ..."
4. The Ancient Kalendar of the University of Oxford, from Documents of the by Christopher Wordsworth (1904)
""The custom of laureating poets perhaps originated in Italy. We hear of it at
Padua in the fourteenth century. There is a letter of Petrarch, where the poet ..."
5. Old Church Life in Scotland: Lectures on Kirk-session and Presbytery Records by Andrew Edgar (1886)
"... and learned his philosophy in about three years ; so that time five years he
was thinking upon learning he was laureating a class in Glasgow. ..."
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