foliate

adj

1. Of or relating to leaves.
2. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.

   “In the Laureat draughts of ſculpture and picture, the leaves and foliate vvorks are commonly thus contrived, vvhich is but in imitation of the Pulvinaria, and ancient pillovv-vvork, obſervable in Ionick peeces, about columns, temples and altars.”

3. Shaped like or otherwise resembling a leaf; leaflike.
4. Of a plant: having leaves.
5. Of a leaf: having a (certain number of) leaflets.
6. Synonym of foliated (“of a rock: having a structure of thin layers”).
7. (obsolete)In the form of a foil or thin sheet.

   “foliate gold”

   “But note, that all Solide Bodies are Cleauing, more or leſſe: And that they loue better the Touch of ſomevvhat that is Tangible, than of Aire. For VVater, in ſmall quantity, cleaueth to any Thing that is Solide; […] And therfore Gold Foliate, or any Metall Foliate, cleaueth: […]”

   “[T]he ſubſtance of gold is indeed invincible by the povverfulleſt action of natural heat, […] as is very evident, not only in the ſvvallowing of golden bullets but in the leſſer and foliate diviſions thereof, paſſing the ſtomack and guts even as it doth the throat, that is vvithout abatement of vveight or conſiſtences; […]”

noun

1. A logocyclic curve.

verb

1. (transitive)To add numbers to (a folio or leaf, or all the folios or leaves, of a book); also, to add numbers to the folios or leaves of (a book); to folio, to page, to paginate.
2. (transitive)To spread (glass) with a thin coat of mercury and tin, or other substances forming a foil, to create a mirror; to foil, to silver.

   “to foliate a looking-glass”

   “[T]he production of the Rainbovv is as much to be aſcribed to the reflection of the concave ſurface of the air, as to the refraction of the Globular drops: this vvill be evidently manifeſt by theſe Experiments, if you foliate that part of a Glaſs-ball that is to reflect an Iris, as in the Carteſian Experiment, above mention'd, the reflections vvill be abundantly more ſtrong, and the colours more vivid: […]”

3. (transitive)To decorate (an architectural feature, as an arch or window) with foils (“small arcs in the traceries of arches, windows, etc.”).

   “All European architecture, bad and good, old and new, is derived from Greece through Rome, and coloured and perfected from the East. […] Now observe: those old Greeks gave the shaft; Rome gave the arch; the Arabs pointed and foliated the arch.”

4. (obsolete, transitive)To beat (metal) into a foil or thin sheet.

   “[I]f Gold be foliated and held betvveen your Eye and the Light, the Light looks blue, and therefore maſſy Gold lets into its Body the blue-making rays to be reflected to and fro vvithin it till they be ſtopt and ſtifled, vvhilſt it reflects the yellovv-making outvvards, and thereby looks yellovv.”

5. (intransitive)To split into layers or leaves.
6. (intransitive)Of a plant: to produce leaves.