▪ I. pupillate, a. rare.
(ˈpjuːpɪlət)
Also pupilate.
[ad. mod.L. pūpillāt-us, f. pūpilla pupil n.2: see -ate2 2.]
= pupilled.
| 1858 Mayne Expos. Lex., Pūpillātus, applied to the wings of birds and of butterflies when they present circular spots of divers colours, representing..an eye, and in the centre of which exists a black spot resembling a pupil: pupillate. |
▪ II. † ˈpupillate, v. Obs. rare—0.
[f. L. pūpillāre + -ate3.]
intr. (See quot.) So † pupiˈllonian [L. pūpillōn-em], one who cries like a peacock.
| 1623 Cockeram, Pupillate, to cry like a Peacocke. 1600 Nashe Summers last Will Wks. (Grosart) VI. 132 This Pupillonian in the fooles coate shall haue a cast of martins, & a whiffe. |