Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to foliate
Participle: foliated
Gerund: foliating
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | foliate |
| you | foliate |
| he;she;it | foliates |
| we | foliate |
| you | foliate |
| they | foliate |
Perfect
| I | have foliated |
| you | have foliated |
| he;she;it | has foliated |
| we | have foliated |
| you | have foliated |
| they | have foliated |
Past
| I | foliated |
| you | foliated |
| he;she;it | foliated |
| we | foliated |
| you | foliated |
| they | foliated |
Pluperfect
| I | had foliated |
| you | had foliated |
| he;she;it | had foliated |
| we | had foliated |
| you | had foliated |
| they | had foliated |
Future
| I | will foliate |
| you | will foliate |
| he;she;it | will foliate |
| we | will foliate |
| you | will foliate |
| they | will foliate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have foliated |
| you | will have foliated |
| he;she;it | will have foliated |
| we | will have foliated |
| you | will have foliated |
| they | will have foliated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | foliate |
| you | foliate |
| he;she;it | foliate |
| we | foliate |
| you | foliate |
| they | foliate |
Perfect
| I | have foliated |
| you | have foliated |
| he;she;it | have foliated |
| we | have foliated |
| you | have foliated |
| they | have foliated |
Imperfect
| I | foliated |
| you | foliated |
| he;she;it | foliated |
| we | foliated |
| you | foliated |
| they | foliated |
Pluperfect
| I | had foliated |
| you | had foliated |
| he;she;it | had foliated |
| we | had foliated |
| you | had foliated |
| they | had foliated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would foliate |
| you | would foliate |
| he;she;it | would foliate |
| we | would foliate |
| you | would foliate |
| they | would foliate |
Perfect
| I | would have foliated |
| you | would have foliated |
| he;she;it | would have foliated |
| we | would have foliated |
| you | would have foliated |
| they | would have foliated |
Imperative
| you | foliate |
| we | Let's foliate |
| you | foliate |
Verbs conjugated like 'foliate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'foliate'
filiate,
foliage,
collate,
defoliate,
exfoliate,
fafiate,
fellate,
flite,
formate,
foveate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Latin folium (“leaf”) + -ate (verb-forming suffix) (more at etymology 1)
Sample Sentences
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to foliate a looking-glass
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[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: […] [1665, R[obert] Hooke, “Observ[ation] XIII. Of the Small Diamants, or Sparks in Flints.”, in Micrographia: Or Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses. […], London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 83:]
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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. [1851, John Ruskin, “The Quarry”, in The Stones of Venice, volume I (The Foundations), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 13:]
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[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. [1704, I[saac] N[ewton], “[The First Book of Opticks. Part II.] Prop[osition] X. Prob[lem] V. [Exper[iment] XVII.]”, in Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light. […], London: […] Sam[uel] Smith, and Benj[amin] Walford, printers to the Royal Society, […], →OCLC, page 140:]