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Definition of Odorate
1. a. Odorous.
Definition of Odorate
1. emitting a smell [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Odorate
Literary usage of Odorate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts by William Nicholson (1811)
"The odorate and sapid particles are conveyed cither by the airs that serve for
respiration, ... The sapid and odorate qualities of bodies then arp ..."
2. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1876)
"Whites are more in- odorate (for the most part) than flowers of the same kind
coloured ; as is found in single white violets, white roses, ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"odorate, (o'-dç-rate) a. ... some soils put forth odorate herbs of themselves ;
noting properties, qualities, or condition ; as, he was a man of a decayed ..."
4. The Philosophical Transactions ... Abridged by Royal Society (Great Britain), John Lowthorp, Henry Jones, Andrew Reid, John Gray, John Eames, John Martyn (1749)
"... but when dry 'tis odorate ; it gives a ... i the Roots alfo geniculate, odorate
j in Form like ..."
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