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(sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel. quotations examples
To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646
Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.
1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd
Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,
2007, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt
plural laureates
(dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate. quotations examples
a learn'd laureate
a. 1658, John Cleveland, An Elegy to Ben Johnson
A graduate of a university. examples
third-person singular simple present laureates, present participle laureating, simple past and past participle laureated
(intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities. examples