devenustate
English
Etymology
From Latin devenustatus, past participle of devenustare (“to disfigure”), from de + venustus (“lovely, graceful”).
Verb
devenustate (third-person singular simple present devenustates, present participle devenustating, simple past and past participle devenustated)
- (obsolete, rare) To deprive of beauty or grace.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for devenustate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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