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Adorn

ADORN', v.t. [L. adorno, ad and orno, to deck, or beautify, to dress, set off, extol, furnish.
1. To deck or decorate; to make beautiful; to add to beauty by dress; to deck with external ornaments.
A bride adorneth, herself with jewels. Isa 6.
To set off to advantage; to add ornaments to; to embellish by any thing external or adventitious; as, to adorn a speech by appropriate action, sentiments with elegance of language, or a gallery with pictures.
3. To make pleasing, or more pleasing; as, great abilities adorned by virtue or affability.
4. To display the beauty or excellence of; as, to adorn the doctrine of God. Titus 2.
ADORN', n. Ornament. Obs.
ADORN', a. Adorned; decorated. Obs.
adorn appears in definitions for these words:
Adore Adorn Aguise Almond Apparel Arch Archivault Array Arrayed Attire Attirer Attiring Baccated Baluster Bar Bead-tree Beautify Beauty Bedeck Bedecked Bedecking Bedight Bedighted Bedighting Bedizen Bedizened Bedizening Befringe Befringed Belaced Belay Bell Bespangle Bespangled Bespangling Bestud Bestudded Bestudding Betrim Betrimmed Betrimming Blazon Border Bordered Branch Branched Broider Brooch Caparison Castellated Citron-tree Clothe Column Constellated Coral-tree Corinthian Coronet Crested Crown Crowning Daisied Damask Damaskeening Damasken Deck Decked Decker Decking Decorate Decorated Decorating Decoration Decorator Deed Diademed Dight Doctrine Dress Dressed Dresser Embellish Embellished Embellishing Embellishment Emblaze Emblazed Emblazon Emblazoned Emblazoning Emborder Embroider Embroidered Enameled Enchase Enchased Enchasing Ermined Exornation Fether Figure Figured Figuring Fillet Fine Flourish Flourished Flourisher Flower Flower-inwoven Flowering Flowery Foil Fretty Fretwork Fringe Fringy Garnish Garnished Garnishing Gaud Gauded Gem Gild Gilt Grace Graced Guard Honest Honestation Honor Hoopoe Hussar Hyacinth Illuminate Illuminated Illuminating Illumination Illumine Imborder Imbordered Imbordering Impaint Instar Invest Invested Inwrought Irradiate Jewel Jeweled Jeweling Label Lace Lacing Laciniate Lemming Mask Metope Miter No Octostyle Ornament Ornate Ornateness Overdress Patch Pearl Pearled Pinnacle Plate Plated Plumule Plumy Porch Portray Prank Pranking Prankt Profusely Radiated Readorn Regenerate Ribin Rostrate Rubric Set Setter Shelling Silver Song Spang Spangle Spangling Spire Sprig Star Starred Starring Starry Steepled Stiriated Storied Stud Studded Studding Tasseled Term The Tinsel Tinseling Tire Towered Towery Trap Trick Trophied Tuft Tufted Unadorned Unattired Unbestarred Undecked Undecorated Unornamented Unvarnished Veneering Yellow-blossomed

 

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