mangonize

present singular third person mangonizes · participle present mangonizing · participle past mangonized · past mangonized

1. obsoletetransitiveTo make (something) appear more attractive or appealing.

   [Y]our Mercuriall wit hath mangonized a Gigantean fury with an humble hue.

   1642, Thomas Barton, “Section II”, in ΑΠΟΔΕΙΞΙΣ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΤΙΤΕΙΧΙΣΜΑΤΟΣ. [APODEIXIS TOU ANTITEICHISMATOS.] Or, A Tryall of the Covnter-scarfe, Made 1642. […], London: Printed by Thomas Purslow, for Andrew Crooke, […], published 1643, →OCLC, page 16

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   What little seems to be authentic history is easily told; nor are, for our present purpose, of much value the legends, which mangonize the life of Buddha. They will be found in every book that treats of the subject, [...]

   1902, Edward Washburn Hopkins, The Religions of India, page 300

   Synonyms: adore, adorn, apparel, array, invest, detail, beautify, bedeck