lustrify

present singular third person lustrifies · participle present lustrifying · participle past lustrified · past lustrified

1. obsoleteTo give luster to; to make lustrous.

   Ointment, wherewith she sprinkles o'er her face, And lustrifies her beauty's dying grace.

   1864, Robert Chambers, The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities, page 42

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   So transformed, transfigured, lustrified, The Tip-tops' mighty halls, They were dumb, the Tip-tops, mystified, In their own treasured walls.

   1883, V. Lescribleur (pseud.), The great anti-crinoline league, page 73

   And that the ladies furthermore had a choice assortment of waters to make their faces shine, confections to clarify their skins, lip salves and scarlet cloths for the cheeks, and ointments for various purposes of lustrifying and beautifying the complexion.

   1887, All the Year Round - Volume 39; Volume 59, page 79

2. obsoleteTo illuminate or clarify.

   Well now, p'raps you can lustrify my officials?

   1850, Howard Taubman, Fashion; or Life in New York. A comedy in five acts, page 2

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   After the introduction, which could be always raised from some immediate circumstance—he announced: “ Now in de flrs' place I'se gwine to 'splain dis her tex; second, I'se argufy de subjec ob de same; furd, I'se bound to lustrify de obscurities ob de passage; and in de fort and lass place I puts on de powerful rousin's.

   1865, Heywood and Son's Up-to-date Collection of Nigger Songs and Recitations74

   To lustrify, sposen I done gone ober to 'Square Jones' some moonlight ebenin and borry a watermelyun.

   1895, E.E. Rogers, “What is one and one and Nothing”, in Book-keeper, volume 8, number 6, page 9