colourish

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colourish

noun

  1. obsolete, uncountable A substance used in gilding to brighten the finish of the gilded object. Muffola, a kind of colour that goldsmithes call colourish.

verb colourishes · colourishing · colourished

  1. obsolete, transitive To add colour to, to brighten with colour. Would truth dispense, we could be content, with Plato, that knowledge were but Remembrance; that Intellectuall acquisition were but Reminiscentiall evocation, and new impressions but the colourishing of old stamps which stood pale in the soul before.

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@misc{colourish_2026,
  title = {colourish},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/colourish},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}