Definition of laureate:
(adj) :
crowned, or decked, with laurel -
Chaucer
"to strew the laureate hearse where
Lycid lies. -
Milton"
(n) :
one crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. A learned laureate -
Cleveland
(v) :
to honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities