aguise
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈɡaɪz/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -aɪz
Verb
aguise (third-person singular simple present aguises, present participle aguising, simple past and past participle aguised)
- (transitive, obsolete) To dress; to array.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Sometimes her head she fondly would aguise
With gaudy girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight
About her neck
Noun
aguise (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Clothing, dress.
- 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 1, stanza 23, page 6:
- The glory of the Court, their faſhions, / And brave agguize with all their Princely ſtate, / Which Poets or Hiſtorians relate / This farre excels, farther than pompous Court / Excels the homelieſt garb of Country rate: […]
Anagrams
Galician
Verb
aguise
- inflection of aguisar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Portuguese
Verb
aguise
- inflection of aguisar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
Spanish
Verb
aguise
- inflection of aguisar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative
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