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Beauty
BEAU'TY, n. bu'ty.
1. An assemblage of graces, or an assemblage of properties in the form of the person or any other object, which pleases the eye. In the person, due proportion or symmetry of parts constitutes the most essential property to which we annex the term beauty. In the face, the regularity and symmetry of the features, the color of the skin, the expression of the eye, are among the principal properties which constitute beauty. But as it is hardly possible to define all the properties which constitute beauty, we may observe in general, that beauty consists in whatever pleases the eye of the beholder, whether in the human body, in a tree, in a landscape, or in any other object.
Beauty is intrinsic, and perceived by the eye at first view, or relative, to perceive which the aid of the understanding and reflection is requisite. Thus, the beauty of a machine is not perceived, till we understand its uses, and adaptation to its purpose. This is called the beauty of utility. By any easy transition, the word beauty is used to express what is pleasing to the other senses, or to the understanding. Thus we say, the beauty of a thought, of a remark, of sound, etc.
So beauty, armed with virtue, bows the soul
With a commanding, but a sweet control.
2. A particular grace, feature or ornament; any particular thing which is beautiful and pleasing; as the beauties of nature.
3. A particular excellence, or a part which surpasses in excellence that with which it is united; as the beauties of an author.
4. A beautiful person, In scripture, the chief dignity or ornament. 2 Sam 1.
5. In the arts, symmetry of parts; harmony; justness of composition.
6. Joy and gladness. Isa 61. Order, prosperity,peace,holiness, Ezek 26.
BEAU'TY, v.t. bu'ty. To adorn; to beautify or embellish. Obs.
beauty appears in definitions for these words:
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Abagun Abstract Adorn Adorning Algum Amaranthus Amaryllis Antelope Anticosmetic Argent Asphodel Aster Attraction Beauteous Beauteousness Beautiful Beautifulness Beautify Beauty Beauty-spot Beauty-waning Belle Belllibone Blemish Bloom Blooming Blossom Bright Captivate Captive Cheap Chestnut-tree Comeliness Complex Comprehensiveness Concurrent Consist Contribute Cosmetic Cry Cudweed Decorate Deface Deflour Defloured Deform Deformed Deforming Deformity Deftness Delicacy Delicate Diadem Disfigure Disfigurement Disfiguring Display Dispose Disrelish Draw Elegance Elegant Elegantly Elocution Embellishment Enchantress Enhancement Epigram Equal Excellence Fairness Fancy Fascinate Favor Finely Fineness Flat Flourish Form Geranium Goddess Goodliness Grace Gracefulness Grand Grandness Handsomely Handsomeness Homeliness Hurt Ill-favored Inelegance Inelegant Inimitable Leopard Lily Love Lure Lust Make Metaphor Mode Natural Nose Occasion Order Ornament Ornamental Pall Paragon Pass Peer Peerless Picturesk Poor Porcelain Port Positive Precarious Predominant Presence Prettiness Pretty Pride Prime Pulchritude Purchase Rare Ravishment Realize Reason Reckoning Refine Refinement Respect Retreat Robbins Roseate Scar Scribble Season Sex Shape Shapliness Slender Smitten Snow-drop Somewhat Spangle Spirit Stale Stamp Superlative Take Tarin Tarnish Taste Temper Test Thereat Toward Tulip Ugliness Ugly Unbeauteous Uncomeliness Underneath Ungraceful Unhandsomeness Uniformity Valley Variegate Venus Visage Vouchsafe Wash Wayward Wedding Whence Woman
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