[f. prec. sb.] trans. To provide with a costume or dress; to arrange the costume or get-up of a theatrical piece.

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1823.  New Monthly Mag., VIII. 243. Spanish painters took … great liberties with costuming their Saints.

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1841.  Lever, C. O’Malley, cxii. I had costumed my fair friend in my dragoon cloak.

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1884.  A. A. Watts, Life A. Watts, I. 213. The eccentricities … in which they costumed their minds.

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