All 18 Uses
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- As was tradition, he had begun this journey adorned in the ritualistic garb of a medieval heretic being led to the gallows, his loose-fitting shirt gaping open to reveal his pale chest, his left pant leg rolled up to the knee, and his right sleeve rolled up to the elbow.†
Chpt Prol.adorned = decorated
- The assembly of brothers encircling him all were adorned in their full regalia of lambskin aprons, sashes, and white gloves.†
Chpt Prol. *
- This city had been conceived and designed by Master Masons—George Washington, Ben Franklin, and Pierre L'Enfant—powerful minds who adorned their new capital with Masonic symbolism, architecture, and art.†
Chpt 5-6
- They had named her river the Tiber and erected a classical capital of pantheons and temples, all adorned with images of history's great gods and goddesses—Apollo, Minerva, Venus, Helios, Vulcan, Jupiter.†
Chpt 19-20
- The walls of this antique-adorned living room were covered with classical art, primarily paintings with strange mythical themes.†
Chpt 21-22
- Adorning every one-dollar bill in circulation, the Unfinished Pyramid waited patiently for its shining capstone, which hovered above it as a reminder of America's yet-unfulfilled destiny and the work yet to be done, both as a country and as individuals.†
Chpt 39-40adorning = decorating
- Seventy-five feet overhead, stained-glass skylights glistened between paneled beams adorned with rare "aluminum leaf"—a metal that was considered to be more precious than gold at one time.†
Chpt 45-46adorned = decorated
- His key ring, she had noticed, included an electronic fob adorned with four letters—USBG.†
Chpt 63-64
- Abruptly, Mal'akh drew his gaze upward, past the double-headed phoenix on his chest, past the collage of ancient sigils adorning his face, and directly to the top of his head.†
Chpt 71-72adorning = decorating
- The brotherhood's symbol had blossomed over the years into a flowering rose on an ornate cross, but it had begun as a more modest dotted circle on an unadorned cross—the simplest manifestation of the rose on the simplest manifestation of the cross.†
Chpt 85-86unadorned = not decoratedstandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unadorned means not and reverses the meaning of adorned. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- Adorning her altars, vestments, spires, and Scripture was the singular image of Christianity—that of a precious, sacrificed human being.†
Chpt 95-96adorning = decorating
- The massive square room was adorned with symbols and bathed in moonlight, which shone down through the oculus at the pinnacle of the ceiling high above.†
Chpt 115-116adorned = decorated
- If he could find it and inscribe it on the top of his head—a sacred location in itself—then he would no doubt consider himself perfectly adorned and ritualistically prepared to ....†
Chpt 115-116
- Sure enough, seated around the altar, adorned in their long silk gloves, Masonic aprons, and glistening jewels, were some of the country's most powerful men.†
Chpt 117-118
- Then she saw a photo of his bare body ....adorned with the first traces of tattoos.†
Chpt 119-120
- Adorned with the Lost Word of the ages, I offer myself by the left hand of my father.†
Chpt 121-122
- From this rare vantage point, the fifteen-foot-tall figures that adorned the nearly five thousand square feet of the Capitol Dome were visible in astonishing detail.†
Chpt 133
- Today, the shrines to man's accomplishments adorned the National Mall.†
Chpt Epil.
Definitions:
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(1)
(adorn) to decorate -- especially a person
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)