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bedizen, v.|bɪˈdaɪz(ə)n, -ˈdɪz(ə)n|
Also bedizzen.
[f. be- + dizen. All English orthoepists have (aɪ); Webster has the alternative |ɪ|.]
trans. To dress out, especially in a vulgar or gaudy fashion.
1661K. W. Conf. Charac. (1860) 81 These petty ladies..are bedizned in sable sacks, or..in white sarcenet wallats. 1755Johnson, Bedizen, to dress out: a low word. a1779Langhorne County Just. (R.) Ye cits, that sore bedizen Nature's face. 1825Scott Talism. (1854) 267 You have bedizened me in green, a colour he detests.
b. fig.
a1788Headley Parod. Gray's El. (T.) The name bedizen'd by the pedant muse. 1806Edin. Rev. VIII. 268 The quotations..with which Mr. Lemaistre has thought fit to bedizzen his pages. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 130 Bedizened out into a burlesque imitation of an antique masque. |