v. [UN-2 6 c.] trans. To render unbeautiful.
1570. Levins, Manip., 98. To vnbeautifie, dedecorare.
1611. Florio, Disabellire,… to vnbeautyfe.
a. 1680. Charnock, Attrib. God (1834), I. 753. Sin unbeautifies man, and ravisheth his excellency.
1729. W. Reeve, Serm., 20. They depreciate and unbeautify the whole work of Redemption.
1798. Lamb, The Witch, in Lucas, Lamb & Lloyds (1898), 94. Heaven’s music, which is order, seems unstrung, And this brave world … unbeautify’d, Disorder’d, marr’d.
1876. W. Alexander, Witness Ps. to Christ (1877), 181. It is characteristic that the same hand should have unbeautified the Psalms for a shallow generation.
