spanglest

Verb

spangle (third-person singular simple present spangles, present participle spangling, simple past and past participle spangled)

1. (also, figuratively, transitive) To fix spangles or sparkling objects to (something); to bespangle.
   • What ſtars do ſpangle heauen with ſuch beautie, / As thoſe two eyes become that heauenly face?c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
2. (figuratively, transitive) To adorn or decorate (something).
   • It seems it is in fashion with you to sugar your papers with Carnation phrases, and spangle your speeches with new quodled words.1647, Theodore de la Guard [pseudonym; Nathaniel Ward], The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America. […], London: […] J[ohn] D[ever] & R[obert] I[bbitson] for Stephen Bowtell, […], →OCLC; The Simple...
3. (intransitive) To flash, glitter, or sparkle.
   • The gifts are differing, being diverse; their administrations are differing, and the operations of them also are differing, though all those things are from that one and the self-same Spirit, working in every one severally as he pleases. All these things will spangle in the New Jerusalem, and carry...1665, John Bunyan, “ The Holy City; or, The New Jerusalem: […]”, in Henry Stebbing, editor, The Entire Works of John Bunyan, […], volume I, London: James S[prent] Virtue, […], published 1863, →OCLC...

   Synonyms:

   coruscate, scintillate

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