Definition of "bedizen" [be•diz•en]

• To ornament or dress in a showy or gaudy manner. (verb-transitive)

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• "Thou art in mourning now, as well as I: but if ever thy ridiculous turn lead thee again to be beau-brocade, I will bedizen thee, as the girls say, on my return, to my own fancy, and according to thy own natural appearance — Thou shalt doctor my soul, and I will doctor thy body: thou shalt see what a clever fellow I will make of thee."
• "We, whose fathers at least were Christians, who have grown up under those mediaeval arches even if we bedizen them with all the demons in"
• "Prithee, young one, who art thou, and what has ailed thy mother to bedizen thee in this strange fashion?"