arch.; also 4–5 bewtye, bewte, 6 beautye. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To render beautiful; to beautify, adorn, deck.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVII. lxxiii. (1495), 647. Floures … defoyleth not the yerde: but bewtyeth it.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. xlii. 131. The Pecocke sayd, he is gretly beautyed by reason of my fethers.
1602. Shaks., Ham., III. i. 51. The Harlots Cheeke beautied with plaist’ring Art.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 201. The altars of the gods in wreathed festoons Are beautied.
