ornify

English

Etymology

From Latin ōrnāre (“to adorn, to decorate”) + -ify.

Verb

ornify (third-person singular simple present ornifies, present participle ornifying, simple past and past participle ornified)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To ornament.
   • quoted in 1844, Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages (page 12)

     You marryed wiues, that are ornified with honestie, wisedome, and vertue, I doe acknowledge you to be the glory of your husbands.

   • 1902, Werner's Readings and Recitations, page 190:

     Mist' Abram, he done went an' bought dis here paycock blue ca'fsmere and dis cream lace fo' to ornify me fo' de weddin' […]