miniate

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Adjective

miniate

1. Of or relating to the colour of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.

Verb

miniate (miniates, present participle miniating; past and past participle miniated)

1. To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion, or with red letters, as in a manuscript.
   • 1774, Thomas Warton, The History of English Poetry

     At Trinity college in Cambridge is a Psalter in Latin and Saxon, admirably written, and illuminated with letters in gold, silver, miniated, &c.

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