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adorn

verb
/əˈdɔɹn/US/əˈdɔː(ɹ)n/UK

Etymology

From Middle English adornen, adournen, from Latin adōrnāre; from ad- + ōrnō (“furnish, embellish”). See adore, ornate. Replaced earlier Middle English aournen (“to adorn”) borrowed from Old French aorner, from the same Latin source.

  1. derived from adōrnō
  2. inherited from adornen

Definitions

  1. To make more beautiful and attractive

    To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

    • a man adorned with noble statuary and columns
    • a character adorned with every Christian grace
    • A gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters.

  2. adornment

    • Her brest all naked, as nett yvory Without adorne of gold or silver bright

  3. adorned

    adorned; ornate

    • And to realities yield all her shows: Made so adorn for thy delight the more

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at adorn. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at adorn. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at adorn

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA