ppl. a. [ad. med.L. auriphrygiātus, f. auriphrygium gold fringe or embroidery: cf. cl. L. phrygio an embroiderer in gold.] Embroidered or fringed with gold.
1814. Southey, Roderick, XVIII. Wks. IX. 164. Nor wore he mitre here, Precious or auriphrygiate. Ibid. (1815), Life & Corr. (1850), IV. 107. The auriphrygiate is the only piece of pedantry that I acknowledge … and I was tempted to it by the grandiloquence of the word.
