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adonises

adonises is the third-person singular simple present indicative of adonise.

Meaning of adonise

Verb

adonise (third-person singular simple present adonises, present participle adonising, simple past and past participle adonised)

  1. (transitive) To embellish or adorn, especially in order to improve the appearance of.
    • 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...1804, Christoph Martin Wieland, Confessions in Elysium: Or, The Adventures of a Platonic, pages 73–74
  2. (intransitive) To enhance one's own appearance.
    • Leaving a breath to swell his tradesmen's books, To adonise, to smile, and kill with looks;1820, Peter Bayley, Sketches from St. George's Fields, page 122

Noun capitalized: Adonises

Adonises

  1. (plural) plural of Adonis

Phrases with adonises

Questions about adonises

What is adonises the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Adonises is the third-person singular simple present indicative of adonise.
What part of speech is adonises?
Adonises is a noun.

Words near adonises in the dictionary

  1. Adonis blue
  2. Adonis blues
  3. adonis pleco
  4. adonise
  5. adonised
  6. adonises
  7. adonising
  8. Adonism
  9. adonist
  10. adonists
  11. adonite

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