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Definition of Miniate
1. Verb. Paint with red lead or vermilion.
Generic synonyms: Color, Colour, Emblazon
Derivative terms: Minium
2. Verb. Decorate (manuscripts) with letters painted red. "In this beautiful book, all the place names are rubricated"
Category relationships: Art, Artistic Creation, Artistic Production
Generic synonyms: Illuminate
Derivative terms: Rubric
Definition of Miniate
1. v. t. To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript.
2. a. Of or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.
Definition of Miniate
1. to paint vermilion [v MINIATED, MINIATING, MINIATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miniate
Literary usage of Miniate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outline History of the Fine Arts: Embracing a View of the Rise, Progress by Benson John Lossing (1840)
"... Art—Church of St. miniate—Cimabue—St. Peter's Church at Rome—Departure from
classic Rules—Saxon Architecture—Round and pointed Arches—English decorative ..."
2. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"In entoni., miniate. miniature (mm'ia-tur or min'i-tur), я. and a. [< F.
miniature = Sp. Pg. miniatura, < It. »tini- at/ira, ..."
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