lustrify

Verb

lustrify (third-person singular simple present lustrifies, present participle lustrifying, simple past and past participle lustrified)

1. (obsolete) To give luster to; to make lustrous.
   • Ointment, wherewith she sprinkles o'er her face, And lustrifies her beauty's dying grace.1864, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities, page 42
   • So transformed, transfigured, lustrified, The Tip-tops' mighty halls, They were dumb, the Tip-tops, mystified, In their own treasured walls.1883, V. Lescribleur (pseud.), The great anti-crinoline league, page 73
2. (obsolete) To illuminate or clarify.
   • Well now, p'raps you can lustrify my officials?1850, Howard Taubman, Fashion; or Life in New York. A comedy in five acts, page 2
   • After the introduction, which could be always raised from some immediate circumstance—he announced: “ Now in de flrs' place I'se gwine to 'splain dis her tex; second, I'se argufy de subjec ob de same; furd, I'se bound to lustrify de obscurities ob de passage; and in de fort and lass place I puts on...1865, Heywood and Son's Up-to-date Collection of Nigger Songs and Recitations74