Definition of Embellished

1. Verb. (past of ''embellish'') ¹

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Definition of Embellished

1. embellish [v] - See also: embellish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Embellished

embedded
embedded system
embedded systems
embeddedness
embedder
embedders
embedding
embedding agents
embeddings
embedment
embedments
embeds
embelin
embellish
embellishable
embellished (current term)
embellisher
embellishers
embellishes
embellishing
embellishment
embellishments
embellisht
ember
ember-goose
emberizid
emberizids
emberizine
emberlike
embers

Literary usage of Embellished

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... proceeds to describe the different systems for carrying the block system into effect The chapters devoted to this subject are embellished by a large ..."

2. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1892)
"Another pretty work of French origin is " My Uncle and My Cure," by Jean de la Brete, translated by Ernest Redwood, embellished with thirty-four ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"he greatly improved and embellished. Pope, in the ' Epilogue to the Satires ' (Dialogue II, pp. .... embellished ..."

4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"(129) by the diligence, and sometimes embellished by the fancy, of succeeding writers ... embellished ..."

5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1889)
"It is embellished with a portrait of Mr. Lower, which first appeared in 1860, as a frontispiece to his ..."

6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... founder of the seminary; Pier Antonio Spinelli (1628) and Jacopo Carafa (1646), both of whom restored and embellished the cathedral. ..."

7. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"7019); it is embellished with a variety of rade drawings, which have been engraved for the present edition. The notes placed at the end of the volume embody ..."

8. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"Its pages were embellished with copper-plate engravings which in some cases reach quite a high level of excellence. Amongst the engravers employed upon the ..."

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