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ornify

ornify verb: to ornament.

Verb

ornify (third-person singular simple present ornifies, present participle ornifying, simple past and past participle ornified)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To ornament.
    • You marryed wiues, that are ornified with honestie, wisedome, and vertue, I doe acknowledge you to be the glory of your husbands.quoted in 1844, Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages (page 12)
    • Mist' Abram, he done went an' bought dis here paycock blue ca'fsmere and dis cream lace fo' to ornify me fo' de weddin' […]1902, Werner's Readings and Recitations, page 190

Forms of ornify

third-person singular presentornifies
present participleornifying
past participleornified
pastornified

Origin of ornify

From Latin ōrnāre (“to adorn, to decorate”) + -ify.

Questions about ornify

What does ornify mean?
Ornify means to ornament.
What part of speech is ornify?
Ornify is a verb.
What is the past tense of ornify?
The past tense of ornify is ornified.

Words near ornify in the dictionary

  1. ornibactin
  2. ornibactins
  3. ornidazole
  4. ornified
  5. ornifies
  6. ornify
  7. ornifying
  8. orning
  9. ornipressin
  10. ornis
  11. ornith-

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