gagate
See also: gågate
English
Etymology
From Latin gagates. See jet (“a black mineral”).
Noun
gagate (countable and uncountable, plural gagates)
- (obsolete) agate
- Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain
- Thus, as Pliny reporteth of the gagate-stone, that, set a-fire, it burneth more fiercely if water be cast on […]
- Thomas Fuller, The Church History of Britain
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gagate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Italian
Noun
gagate f (plural gagati)
Synonyms
Latin
Noun
(deprecated template usage) gagātē