aguise

A1G2U1I1S1E1
/əˈɡaɪz/

verb

To dress; to array.

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Meanings

verbaguise (third-person singular simple present aguises, present participle aguising, simple past and past participle aguised)

present singular third person aguises · participle present aguising · participle past aguised · past aguised

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo dress; to array.

    Sometimes her head she fondly would aguise With gaudy girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight About her neck

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
nounaguise (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableClothing, dress.

    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: […]

    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

Origin

From a- + guise; compare disguise.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with aguise

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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