Verb

(refin)

To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify

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To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or excellent; to polish.

To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence.

To affect nicety or subtlety in thought or language.

Verb

(en verb)

To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.

a man adorned with noble statuary and columns

a character adorned with every Christian grace

a gallery of paintings was adorned with the works of some of the great masters

* Bible, Isa. lxi. 10

as a bride adorneth herself with her jewels

* Goldsmith

At church, with meek and unaffected grace, / His looks adorned the venerable place.