▪ I. † ˈgranate, n.1 Obs.
Also 7 granat, grenat.
[ad. med.L. grānāt-um (OF. grenat): see garnet1.]
= garnet1.
| a 1400–50 Alexander 3344 Þe ferd degre a Granate, a gracious gemme. 1555 Eden Decades (Arb.) 234 A granate which we commonly caule a garnet. 1600 Hakluyt Voy. (1810) III. 451 Certaine small stones broken which are in Colour somewhat like Granates. 1601 Holland Pliny xxxvii. vii. II. 618 The common Grenat also of Carchedon or Carthage, is said to doe as much... These Grenats are found upon the hills among the Nasamons. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. iii. iv. §4 The red Granat [signified] Charity. 1750 tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 104 Granate,..a Stone of the Carbuncle Kind. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. II. 16 Norway produces crystals, granates, amethysts [etc.]. |
▪ II. † ˈgranate, n.2 Obs.
Also 7 gran(n)et. See garnet2.
[a. L. (pōmum) grānātum, OF. (pome) grenate: see pomegranate. Cf. grenade1.]
1. The pomegranate.
| 1568 G. Skeyne The Pest (1860) 34 Vyne of granatis. 1605 Timme Quersit. iii. 149 Thou maiest extract out of the barke of..granates, a substance comming most neere to the vertue of vitriol. 1641 G. Sandys Paraphr. Song Sol. vi. v, To see..Granets blooming on their Stems. 1694 Salmon Bate's Disp. ii. (1713) 634/2 Syrup of Clove-gilly-flowers, Limons, or Granates. 1698 Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 247 Figs, Prunes, Grannet, Chestnut..and all those we call Wall-Fruit. |
b. attrib., as granate-apple.
| a 1622 Ainsworth Annot. Song Sol. iv. 13 Granate-apples, so named because they are full of granes or kernels. |
2. Short for ‘granate-colour’. (In quot. 1805 used to render F. grenat: see grenat.)
| 1750 tr. Leonardus' Mirr. Stones 111 Some of them are of a Citron Colour, others of a Granate..the Granate of the Colour of the Flower of a Pomegranate Apple. 1805 tr. A. La Fontaine's Hermann and Emilia I. 245 The old lady wore a mantle of black velvet, ornamented with granate. |
▪ III. † ˈgranate, a. rare—0.
[ad. L. grānāt-us, f. grān-um grain n.1]
Having many grains. (Cf. granated.)
| 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Granate, that has many Grains, as granate Marble. |
▪ IV. † ˈgranate, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. L. grānāt-us formed into grains.]
trans. To form into grains; to granulate. Hence granated ppl. a.
| 1688 Burnet Lett. State Italy (1708) 242 Pillars..of granated Marble. 1750 G. Hughes Barbadoes 143 A subtile resinous juice perspires through the leaves,..which by the heat of the sun is granated and entirely incrusts them. |
▪ V. granate
obs. variant of granite.