readornv.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Rabbellire, lisco, lito, to beawtifie, to readorne againe.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 297[299] King Henry the Fifth readourned it with new buildings.

1668 W. Prynne Aurum Reginæ Ep. Ded. sig. A2^v If these Collections..shall prove Instrumental to yield any Assistance towards the recovery of, and re-adorning Your Royal Crown..it will be a sufficient Recompence.

1712 R. Blackmore Creation vi. 292 With Scarlet Honours re-adorn'd.

1789 E. Hands Death of Amnon 61 Though spring will quickly re-adorn the grove, Yet I can never hope to see my love.

1859 W. T. Smithson Methodist Pulpit (ed. 3) 366 It is his high prerogative..to re-edify the fallen temple of the human soul, to re-adorn it with the beauties of holiness.

1861 De Bow's Rev. Oct.–Nov. 348 Impossible fiction and unmitigated doggerel, in all styles..will readorn shelves lately sacred to dust and moths.

1909 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 27 Apr. 7/4 (advt.) Attractive offerings to readorn the home.

1987 E. R. Napier Failure of Gothic i. 25 The Gothic elements..do not transform the structure of the narrative in any significant way; rather, they readorn and refurbish what to its readers would have been an old familiar form.

2001 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 60 445/1 The duty of the present to readorn the objects of the past in a manner appropriate to their sanctity.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Rabbellimento, a readorning or rebeawtifying.

1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 160 But such re-adorning Time forbids with scorning.

1957 M. K. Pukui & S. H. Elbert Hawaiian-Eng. Dict. Apr. 125/1 Kauila,..taboo ceremony consecrating a temple; ceremonial readorning of images with feathers.