laureate

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The Greeks adored the Spercheius, to whose god Peleus vowed the hair of his son; the laureated Peneus, the earth-born Achelous, and the loving Alpheus.

From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)

He was laureated: this does not mean, as at present, that he was poet laureate of England, but that he received a degree of which that was the title.

From English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction by Coppee, Henry

Charles II.—The milled money of this king is of a very different style, and has the head laureated.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832 by Various

A wild legend, the origin of which is unknown, but which is utterly baseless, asserts that Urquhart "was laureated poet at Paris before he was three and twenty years of age."

From Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromartie, Knight by Willcock, John

He was buried among the poets in Westminster-Abbey, and the handsome table monument of blue marble which was raised over his grave the same year, is adorned with his effigies in busto, laureated.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume I. by Cibber, Theophilus