Definition of honesto
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Orthography ID = 2025849
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LNS
honestō, honestāre, honestāvī, honestātus
verb (1st conjugation)
  1. to clothe or adorn with honor
  2. to honor, dignify
  3. to adorn, grace, embellish
  4. With personal objects
  5. With inanimate objects
Abbreviations
honesto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. id., to clothe or adorn with honor; to honor, dignify; to adorn, grace, embellish (class.; cf. honoro), with personal or inanimate objects. With personal objects quom me tanto honore honestas, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 106; 2, 1, 50; cf.: quod non dignos homines honore honestatos videbam, Sall. C. 35, 3 Kritz.: tantam laudem, quantā vos me vestris decretis honestatis, nemo est assecutus, Cic Cat 4, 10, 20: Saturnini imagine mortem ejus honestare, id. Rab. Perd. 9, 24; id. Sull. 29, 81; id. Off. 1, 39, 139: haec famigeratio Te honestet, me autem collutulet, Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 67: ad eum augendum atque honestandum, Cic. Off. 2, 6, 21: a quibus, si interdum ad forum deducimur, si uno basilicae spatio honestamur, diligenter observari videmur et coli, are honored by being accompanied through the basilica, id. Mur. 34, 70: summi viri Gracchorum et Flacci sanguine non modo se non contaminarunt, sed etiam honestarunt, id. Cat. 1, 12, 29: quem vultus honestat, Dedecorant mores, Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 26; cf.: arma auro et argento distincta corpus rarae magnitudinis honestabant, Curt. 8, 44, 7: ingens corpus erat (Navii), et arma honestabant, Liv. 26, 5, 16.

— With inanimate objects: nec domo dominus, sed domino domus honestanda est, Cic. Off. 1, 39, 139: L. Pauli currum rex nobilissimus Perses honestavit, id. Cat. 4, 10, 21: caput (avis) plumeo apice honestante (with distinguere), Plin. 10, 2, 2, ยง 3; cf. Curt. 8, 13: formam pudor honestabat, id. 6, 2; 3, 6 fin.: exornatio est, qua utimur rei honestandae et locupletandae causa, adorn, Auct. Her. 2, 18, 28; Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 7.
 
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