aguise

English

Etymology

From a- +‎ guise; compare disguise.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈɡaɪz/

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• Rhymes: -aɪz

Verb

aguise (third-person singular simple present aguises, present participle aguising, simple past and past participle aguised)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To dress; to array.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Sometimes her head she fondly would aguise
     With gaudy girlonds, or fresh flowrets dight
     About her neck

Noun

aguise (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Clothing, dress.
   • 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:

     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: […]

Anagrams

• Eguias

Galician

Verb

aguise

1. inflection of aguisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Portuguese

Verb

aguise

1. inflection of aguisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

aguise

1. inflection of aguisar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative