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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Poetic Beautiful; embellished.

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  • adjective obsolete, poetic beautiful; embellished

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Examples

  • The harlot’s cheek, beautied with plastering art, 60

    Act III. Scene I. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark 1914

  • There was that beautied-up typewriter settin 'in the window-sill o' Morris's butler's pantry -- an 'if she didn't wink at me malicious, then I don't know malice when I see it. An' she used her fingers against her nose, too, most defiant and impolite.

    Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

  • In summer woods are beautied with boughs and branches, with herbs and grass.

    Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus Robert Steele 1902

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