adonize
/ˈadənʌɪz/(also adonise) Now rare
verb
1 [with object] To adorn, beautify; to titivate. Chiefly refl. (used chiefly of men). Formerly also with †it, with reflexive meaning. Now historical.
2 [no object] To adorn or beautify oneself; to primp. Used chiefly of men.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in Randle Cotgrave (fl. 1587–?1630), lexicographer. From French adoniser from Adonis, the name of Adonis, also as noun in sense ‘handsome young man’ + -iser.
- rhetorically
- rhetoricalness
- rhetorical question
- rhetorical theory
- rhetorical trope
- rhetoricating
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- rhetoricise
- rhetoricity
- rhetoricization
- rhetoricize
- rhetoricized
- rhetorism
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- rhetorized
- Rheto-Roman
- rhetory
- rheum
- rheumatic
- rheumatically
- rheumatic fever
- rheumaticky
- rheumatic-like
- rheumatics
- rheumatise