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aguise en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /əˈɡaɪz/

Etymology

From a- + guise; compare disguise.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, uncountable) Clothing, dress.
   • The glory of the Court, their faſhions, / And brave agguize with all their Princely ſtate, / Which Poets or Hiſtorians relate / This farre excels, farther than pompous Court / Excels the homelieſt garb of Country rate: […] 1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 1, stanza 23, page 6:

aguise en · VERB

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /əˈɡaɪz/

Etymology

From a- + guise; compare disguise.

Meanings

1. (obsolete, transitive) To dress; to array.
   • Sometimes her head she fondly would aguise With gaudy girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight About her neck 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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