beautifier (butifier)

One who or that which makes beautiful. Semi ram is, the founder of Babylon, according to Justin and Strabo; but the enlarger only and beautifier of it, according to Hero dot us. IMG:content-1818.png:[blocks in formation] manner. The quality Fine by degrees and beautifully le . Prior, Henry and Emma, 1. 323. beautifulne (bū'ti-fül-nes), n . of being beautiful; elegance of form; beauty. beautify (bu'ti-fi), v.; pret. and pp. beautified , ppr. beautifying . [Early mod. E. also beutify , beutyfy, bewtify , -fie ; beauty + -fy.] I. trans . To make or render beautiful; adorn; deck; grace; decorate; embellish. The arts that beautify and polish life. Burke . IMG:content-1819.png:[blocks in formation] beauty (būti), n.; pl. beauties (-tiz). [Early mod. E. also beuty, bewty, denotes primarily that which pleases the eye or ear, but it is applied also to that quality in any object of thought which awakens admiration or approval: as, intellectual beauty , moral beauty , the beauty of holine , the beauty of utility, and so on. He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly. Shak ., Othello, v. 1. A thing of beauty is a joy for ever. Keats , Endymion, 1. 1. The homely beauty of the good old cause is gone. Words worth, National Independence, i. IMG:content-1820.png:[blocks in formation] The fil you r of swine makes them the beauty - spot of the animal creation. Grew. The numberle absurdities into which this copyism has led the people, from nose-rings to ear-rings, from painted faces to beauty - spots . H. Spencer, Universal Progre , p. 90. 2. An especially beautiful feature or thing. Bunyan .