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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Miniated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Miniating

[L.

miniatus

, p. p. of

miniare

. See

To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript.

T. Wharton.

Adj.

Of or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.

Verb.

[L. minium, vermillion.] To paint or tinge with vermillion.