Obs. [ad. L. colōrāt-us, pa. pple. of colorāre to color; see -ATE2.] Colored.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 801. Corporeal, figurate and colorate.
1691. Ray, Creation, II. (1704), 289. Had the Tunicles and Humors of the Eye … been colorate.
Hence † Coloratly adv. Sc., in a colored or disguised way, under false colors.
1582–8. Hist. James VI. (1806), 49. Some were directit to Queene Marie coloratly, as though they had bein hir friends.
