venustare

venustare [LL], to make pleasing or attractive (in appearance or character). b (intr.) to be pleasing or attractive. ut ‥ corpus et animum spiritalium virtutum habitu ~et Bede Tab. 480D; eas [sc. Wilfridi reliquias] ‥ novo opere pretium duxi carmine ~are O. Cant. Pref. Frith. 38; videns clericum juvenem juvenilem etatem morum senectute ~antem V. Gund. 3; tegmine ‥ ecclesiam mirifice supra memoratam Mariolam ~avit abbas Willelmus G. S. Alb. I 287; s1306 princeps ‥ factus miles perrexit in ecclesiam Westmonasterii ut socios suos militari gloria pariter ~aret Flor. Hist. III 132; 1504 eritque sacriste officium ‥ ecclesiam ab omnibus immunditiis ‥ purgare ac graminibus et floribus ~are Reg. Glasg. 510.  b cesaries ‥ in juventute ‥ a flavo declinans in nigredinem, senectute in cygneam versa canitiem ~abat Rish. 76 (= Wals. HA I 9).