Meaning

(obsolete) To give luster to; to make lustrous..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) To give luster to; to make lustrous.
2. (obsolete) To illuminate or clarify.

Example Sentences

Ointment, wherewith she sprinkles o'er her face, And lustrifies her beauty's dying grace.

So transformed, transfigured, lustrified, The Tip-tops' mighty halls, They were dumb, the Tip-tops, mystified, In their own treasured walls.

And that the ladies furthermore had a choice assortment of waters to make their faces shine, confections to clarify their skins, lip salves and scarlet cloths for the cheeks, and ointments for various purposes of lustrifying and beautifying the complexion.

Well now, p'raps you can lustrify my officials?

After the introduction, which could be always raised from some immediate circumstance—he announced: “ Now in de flrs' place I'se gwine to 'splain dis her tex; second, I'se argufy de subjec ob de same; furd, I'se bound to lustrify de obscurities ob de passage; and in de fort and lass place I puts on de powerful rousin's.

To lustrify, sposen I done gone ober to 'Square Jones' some moonlight ebenin and borry a watermelyun.

Word Forms

• lustrifies
• lustrifying
• lustrified

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