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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.



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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.


A-DORN', a.

Adorned; decorated. [Obs.] – Milton.


A-DORN', n.

Ornament. [Obs.] – Spenser.


A-DORN', v.t. [L. adorno, ad and orno, to deck, or beautify, to dress, set off, extol, furnish; Fr. orner; Sp. Port. ornar; It. ornare; Arm. aourna. Orno is probably the Saxon hrinan, gerenian, gerinan, gehrinan, to touch, to strike, to adorn, that is, to put on.]

  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. vi.
  2. 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 ii.

A*dorn"
  1. To deck or dress with ornaments; to embellish; to set off to advantage; to render pleasing or attractive.

    As a bride adorneth herself with her jewels.
    Isa. lxi. 10.

    At church, with meek and unaffected grace,
    His looks adorned the venerable place.
    Goldsmith.

    Syn. -- To deck; decorate; embellish; ornament; beautify; grace; dignify; exalt; honor. -- To Adorn, Ornament, Decorate, Embellish. We decorate and ornament by putting on some adjunct which is attractive or beautiful, and which serves to heighten the general effect. Thus, a lady's head-dress may be ornament or decorated with flowers or jewelry; a hall may be decorated or ornament with carving or gilding, with wreaths of flowers, or with hangings. Ornament is used in a wider sense than decorate. To embellish is to beautify or ornament richly, not so much by mere additions or details as by modifying the thing itself as a whole. It sometimes means gaudy and artificial decoration. We embellish a book with rich engravings; a style is embellished with rich and beautiful imagery; a shopkeeper embellishes his front window to attract attention. Adorn is sometimes identical with decorate, as when we say, a lady was adorned with jewels. In other cases, it seems to imply something more. Thus, we speak of a gallery of paintings as adorned with the works of some of the great masters, or adorned with noble statuary and columns. Here decorated and ornamented would hardly be appropriate. There is a value in these works of genius beyond mere show and ornament. Adorn may be used of what is purely moral; as, a character adorned with every Christian grace. Here neither decorate, nor ornament, nor embellish is proper.

  2. Adornment.

    [Obs.] Spenser.
  3. Adorned; decorated.

    [Obs.] Milton.
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Adorn

ADORN', verb transitive [Latin 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. Isaiah 61:10.

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 2:10.

ADORN', noun Ornament. obsolete

ADORN', adjective Adorned; decorated. obsolete

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