"adonise" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Adonis + -ise.",
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      "form": "adonises",
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      "form": "adonising",
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    {
      "form": "Adonise",
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      "form": "adonize",
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          "ref": "1804, Christoph Martin Wieland, Confessions in Elysium: Or, The Adventures of a Platonic, pages 73–74:",
          "text": "Delighted with each other......we rambled....arm in arm......about the citron groves;.......and, when a mossy bank invited our repose...my charmer would weave garlands of flowers to adonise her shepherd ; ..........recline upon my arm..... and to the gentle lullaby of a murmuring stream..... sink into forgetfulness",
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        {
          "ref": "1830, an old army surgeon, Economy of the hands and feet, fingers and toes, page 107:",
          "text": "Formerly, if not exactly to the same extent at the present day, mineral substances were only made use of to adonise the complexion ; indeed, every composition is qualified with this name, whether it be white or red, which women, and even men (coxcombs), with a clear skin, subserve to embellish their faces, with a view to imitate the colours of youth, or artificially to repair the absence of them.",
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          "ref": "2013, Steven Douglas, Lincoln’s Bedsheet, →ISBN:",
          "text": "Of all the looming Negroes that Lincoln could have brought into the White House to adonise his cause, Johnson had been his choice, with the scuttling train of a monitor lizard.",
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        "To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of."
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        "(transitive) To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of."
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          "ref": "1820, Peter Bayley, Sketches from St. George's Fields, page 122:",
          "text": "Leaving a breath to swell his tradesmen's books, To adonise, to smile, and kill with looks;",
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          "ref": "1859, Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen, Raised to the Peerage: A Novel, page 158:",
          "text": "Since I parted with Darnley, who went in to adonise, I believe, Cameron has been hindering me with acknowledgments and regrets.",
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          "ref": "1891, John Keats (ed Sir Sidney Colvin), Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends, page 291:",
          "text": "Whenever I find myself growing vapourish, I rouse myself, wash, and put on a clean shirt, brush my hair and clothes, tie my shoestrings neatly, and in fact adonise as I were going out.",
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        "To enhance one's own appearance."
      ],
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        "(intransitive) To enhance one's own appearance."
      ],
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    }
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  "word": "adonise"
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          "text": "Formerly, if not exactly to the same extent at the present day, mineral substances were only made use of to adonise the complexion ; indeed, every composition is qualified with this name, whether it be white or red, which women, and even men (coxcombs), with a clear skin, subserve to embellish their faces, with a view to imitate the colours of youth, or artificially to repair the absence of them.",
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          "text": "Of all the looming Negroes that Lincoln could have brought into the White House to adonise his cause, Johnson had been his choice, with the scuttling train of a monitor lizard.",
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        "To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of."
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        "(transitive) To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of."
      ],
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          "text": "Leaving a breath to swell his tradesmen's books, To adonise, to smile, and kill with looks;",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen, Raised to the Peerage: A Novel, page 158:",
          "text": "Since I parted with Darnley, who went in to adonise, I believe, Cameron has been hindering me with acknowledgments and regrets.",
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        },
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          "ref": "1891, John Keats (ed Sir Sidney Colvin), Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends, page 291:",
          "text": "Whenever I find myself growing vapourish, I rouse myself, wash, and put on a clean shirt, brush my hair and clothes, tie my shoestrings neatly, and in fact adonise as I were going out.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "To enhance one's own appearance."
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        "(intransitive) To enhance one's own appearance."
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  "word": "adonise"
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