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adorn

əˈdɔrn
WordNet
Portrait of Pope Pius IV in the papal robe, the head adorned with the papal tiara. Bust to the right in an oval frame with Latin edge lettering.
Portrait of Pope Pius IV in the papal robe, the head adorned with the papal tiara. Bust to the right in an oval frame with Latin edge lettering.
  1. (v) adorn
    make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc. "Decorate the room for the party","beautify yourself for the special day"
  2. (v) adorn
    furnish with power or authority; of kings or emperors
  3. (v) adorn
    be beautiful to look at "Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
Illustrations
Portrait of Pope Urban VII dressed in papal robes, the head adorned with a camauro. Bust to the left in an oval frame with edge lettering. His papal coat of arms is depicted in the top center. Under the portrait six lines of text in Latin.
Portrait of Pope Urban VII dressed in papal robes, the head adorned with a camauro. Bust to the left in an oval frame with edge lettering. His papal coat of arms is depicted in the top center. Under the portrait six lines of text in Latin.
Portrait of Pope Paul IV in papal robes, the head adorned with a camauro. Bust to the left in an oval frame with edge lettering. His papal coat of arms is depicted above a line of text in Latin and in the top center. Below the portrait seven lines of text in Latin.
Portrait of Pope Paul IV in papal robes, the head adorned with a camauro. Bust to the left in an oval frame with edge lettering. His papal coat of arms is depicted above a line of text in Latin and in the top center. Below the portrait seven lines of text in Latin.
The Golden Age: a woman adorned with flowers sits by a beehive. The print refers to the mythologically inspired idea that man initially lived in an era of continuous spring. War or injustice was absent. During the Golden Age everyone lived in bliss, in a world where people could enjoy the fertile nature without working. The print is part of a series about the four eras.
The Golden Age: a woman adorned with flowers sits by a beehive. The print refers to the mythologically inspired idea that man initially lived in an era of continuous spring. War or injustice was absent. During the Golden Age everyone lived in bliss, in a world where people could enjoy the fertile nature without working. The print is part of a series about the four eras.
Putti adorn the oval portrait of the artist Gerard de Lairesse which stands on a cloth covered pedestal with palm branches, laurel wreaths and flowers. In the background to the right, a putto in a studio is chiseling a bust. The portrait is pasted and provided with the text: Vivitur Ingenio.
Putti adorn the oval portrait of the artist Gerard de Lairesse which stands on a cloth covered pedestal with palm branches, laurel wreaths and flowers. In the background to the right, a putto in a studio is chiseling a bust. The portrait is pasted and provided with the text: Vivitur Ingenio.
Mary with the Christ Child in her lap, seated on a leaf-adorned throne in an arbor. Christ crowns Saint Catherine kneeling before him. On the right is St. Apollonia with her attributes in hand, the martyr's palm and the pincers. On the left is St. Margareta with a dragon on a leash. Next to her an angel with a bundle of lightning bolts. In the margin a three-line caption in Latin.
Mary with the Christ Child in her lap, seated on a leaf-adorned throne in an arbor. Christ crowns Saint Catherine kneeling before him. On the right is St. Apollonia with her attributes in hand, the martyr's palm and the pincers. On the left is St. Margareta with a dragon on a leash. Next to her an angel with a bundle of lightning bolts. In the margin a three-line caption in Latin.
Portrait of Pope Pius V in papal robes, the head adorned with a camauro. Bust to the right in an oval frame with edge lettering. His papal coat of arms is depicted above a two-line text in Latin and in the top center. Below the portrait seven lines of text in Latin.
Portrait of Pope Pius V in papal robes, the head adorned with a camauro. Bust to the right in an oval frame with edge lettering. His papal coat of arms is depicted above a two-line text in Latin and in the top center. Below the portrait seven lines of text in Latin.
Portrait of Pope Leo X in papal robes, the head adorned with a camauro. Bust to the right in an oval frame with edge lettering. His papal coat of arms is depicted above a two-line text in Latin and in the top center. Below the portrait seven lines of text in Latin.
Portrait of Pope Leo X in papal robes, the head adorned with a camauro. Bust to the right in an oval frame with edge lettering. His papal coat of arms is depicted above a two-line text in Latin and in the top center. Below the portrait seven lines of text in Latin.
Portrait of Pope Julius III in papal robes, the head adorned with a camauro. Bust to the right in an oval frame with edge lettering. His papal coat of arms is depicted above a two-line text in Latin and in the top center. Under the portrait six lines of text in Latin.
Portrait of Pope Julius III in papal robes, the head adorned with a camauro. Bust to the right in an oval frame with edge lettering. His papal coat of arms is depicted above a two-line text in Latin and in the top center. Under the portrait six lines of text in Latin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Adorn
    Adorned; decorated.
  2. Adorn
    Adornment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. adorn
    To beautify or decorate; increase or lend beauty or attractiveness to, as by dress or ornaments; hence, in general, to render pleasing, or more pleasing or attractive; embellish.
  2. adorn
    To display the beauty or excellence of: as, to “adorn the doctrine of God,” Tit. ii. 10. Synonyms Adorn, Ornament, Decorate, Embellish, Beautify, Deck, Array, grace, garnish, bedeck, set off. (See decorate.) The italicized words, except deck and array, are expressive of the attempt to add or increase beauty. Adorn has the most nobleness and spirituality; it is the least external. Garments that adorn a woman seem a part of her personality and bring out her comeliness; many virtues adorn his character; the hall was adorned with the portraits of their ancestors. In these examples, no other word in the list is high enough or near enough to take the place of adorn. Ornament and decorate express the addition of something external, which still preserves its separate character and may perhaps be easily removed. Ornament, as kindred to adorn, is nearer to its meaning; decorate expresses that which is more showy: ornamented with pictures; the bare walls were decorated for the occasion with flags and wreaths. Both express the adding of beauty to that which was deficient in it before. Embellish implies previous beauty, to which luster or brilliancy is added by something which perhaps becomes a part of the original: as, a book embellished with plates; a style embellished with figures of speech. The word is sometimes used of over-ornamentation. Beautify is the most direct in its expression of the general idea. Of the first five words, decorate is the least often used figuratively; decorated speech is speech in which the ornaments have no vital connection or harmony with the thought, so that they seem merely ornamental. Deck is to cover, and hence to cover in a way to please the eye: as, decked with flowers. Array is used especially of covering with splendid dress, the meaning being extended from persons to animals, etc.: the fields were arrayed in green.
  3. (n) adorn
    Ornament.
  4. adorn
    Adorned; decorated.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.t) Adorn
    ad-orn′ to deck or dress: to embellish
  2. (n) Adorn
    (Spens.) adornment
  3. (adj) Adorn
    (Milton) adorned, ornate
Quotations
Each of the arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.
Eliza Farnham
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
Roy Thompson
Mary Wollstonecraft
Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
Mary Wollstonecraft
I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within.
Titus Maccius Plautus
Euripides
Know first who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Euripides
William Hazlitt
Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.
William Hazlitt
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. aournen, anournen, adornen, OF. aorner, fr. L. aaornare,; ad, + ornare, to furnish, embellish. See Adore Ornate

Usage in the news

I saw a glimmering headdress made of miniscule white beads and adorned with beaded butterflies. jsonline.com

Something about a celebration of chocolate calls to mind a French chateau dining room adorned with the glow of a thousand candles. mvgazette.com

Nibbles Woodaway is adorned with about 6,000 energy saving LED lights. 2.turnto10.com

A chapel icon that once adorned the front of a beachfront home is one of the few items to have survived what is now known as the Breezy Point fire in Queens. kclu.org

Leon Reid IV wants to adorn the Brooklyn Bridge with a massive vinyl arachnid for an $800,000 art project he's calling "A Spider Lurks in Brooklyn.". nypost.com

Fine Art Craft Adornment by Design . southwestart.com

Kransekake is also different from most cakes in that it is baked as a series of rings that are plastered together with a sweet, almond icing and then adorned with a wide variety of candies or other decorations. blog.seattlepi.com

The long, heavy drapes that adorn this home theater entrance are just a preview. electronichouse.com

TRENTON — Adorned in a mustard yellow jersey, Dave Caruso manned the net for the Titans yesterday afternoon after his return from AHL outpost Charlotte. nj.com

This was then blended with fat from animal bone marrow and charcoal, to create paint for human adornment and cave painting. icis.com

Hubert has been a familiar presence in galleries and museums for 30 years or more, and his ceramic vessels have had a signature style and adornment that could never be attributed to another. goerie.com

"True pleasure takes sacrifice," is the tattoo that adorns his chest, sandwiched by likenesses of Karter, 6, and Chamberlain 's father, Harlan. nytimes.com

It's likely no coincidence that "The Evolution of a City," the angular, Carolina blue-tinted artwork by an East Chapel Hill High teen, adorns the cover of Chapel Hill 's simmering master plan, Chapel Hill 2020. indyweek.com

Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Va. Theme park's Christmas Town is back for a fourth season, with six million lights adorning nearly every building. suntimes.com

Second to the horse race (and maybe the parties), the Kentucky Derby, which is May 4 and 5, is known for some fabulous women's hats that adorn the sidelines of the multi-million dollar horse race. foxnews.com

Usage in scientific papers

Such program is logically equivalent to magic (P , Q), thus our correctness theorem holds also for this case.3 An important class of magic transformations employs adornments (see e.g. (Ramakrishnan 1991; Beeri and Ramakrishnan 1991)).
A Simple Correctness Proof for Magic Transformation

The original program P is transformed into an adorned program P ad , by renaming predicate symbols into fresh ones. (We omit the details of the transformation.) A symbol p may be renamed into more than one symbols; thus several renamings of a clause C ∈ P may appear in P ad .
A Simple Correctness Proof for Magic Transformation

The new magic program is obtained by applying the magic transformation from Df. 2 to the adorned program: magic (cid:48) (P , Q) = magic (P ad , Q), From Th. 4 we obtain4 correctness of this magic transformation: P |= Qθ iff magic (cid:48) (P , Q) |= Qθ .
A Simple Correctness Proof for Magic Transformation

Comultiplications, counits, and antipodes are denoted as usual by ∆, ε and S perhaps adorned with the name of the coalgebra or Hopf algebra as in ∆H , and we use Sweedler notation with suppressed summation symbol for comultiplication, as in ∆(x) = x1 ⊗ x2 .
Free unitary groups are (almost) simple

The backbone is obviously isomorphic (as a graph) to N, hence the IIC can be seen as N adorned with dangling branches.
Randomly Trapped Random Walks

Usage in literature

These artifices of civilized countries resemble the tattooing, nose-rings, etc., with which savage women adorn themselves. "The Sexual Question" by August Forel

It was built of gold and silver, and adorned with pearls and precious stones. "The Chinese Fairy Book" by Various

It was adorned by a perfect cascade of flowers. "Pepita Ximenez" by Juan Valera

The chief adornments consisted of ornaments and jewels of gold and precious stones. "The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume 40 of 55" by Francisco Colin

With these all the finest works have been executed for the artistic adornment of dress and hangings. "Needlework As Art" by Marian Alford

It would be more truthful to say, adorned three walls. "Chicken Little Jane on the Big John" by Lily Munsell Ritchie

The word "=adorns=", in next the last line, should read "=adorn=". "Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922" by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

One of his works, his 'Medulla Theologiae,' I believe, adorned the walls of the paternal study. "East Anglia Personal Recollections and Historical Associations" by J. Ewing Ritchie

Of the edifices and monuments which adorned the fora, only a slight sketch can be given here. "Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 2" by Various

Tables of benefactions also adorned the walls. "Old and New London" by Walter Thornbury

Usage in poetry
And bright thy crown shall be
With living jewels set!
Souls won to Christ by thee
Adorn thy coronet!
"In Memoriam (II)" by Alfred Gibbs Campbell
A golden crown adorns the spot;
Forever blessed be
The hand beneficent that wrought
"A temple by the sea!"
"Watch Hill" by Hattie Howard
'Tis he adorned my naked soul,
And made salvation mine;
Upon a poor polluted worm
He makes his graces shine.
"Hymn 20" by Isaac Watts Author object (310)
But now, we see none here,
Whose silvery feet did tread
And with dishevell'd hair
Adorn'd this smoother mead.
"To Meadows" by Robert Herrick
Sweet serene skye-like Flower,
Haste to adorn her Bower :
From thy long clowdy bed,
Shoot forth thy damaske head.
"The Rose" by Richard Lovelace Author object (559)
"That noble servant in my sight
Whom strength and grace adorn,
Announces, if I read aright,
A master nobly born."
"The Hermit's Dog" by William Hayley Author object (706)