[f. EMBELLISH v. + -ING1.] The action or process of making beautiful; also concr. ornamentation.

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1641.  Milton, Ch. Govt., ii. (1851), 103. The devices and imbellishings of mans imagination.

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1678.  Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 33. For the Adorning and Embellishing of the Corporeal World to us.

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