foliate

Example Sentences

• "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."
• "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; […]"
• "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: […]"