Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to adonise
Participle: adonised
Gerund: adonising
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | adonise |
| you | adonise |
| he;she;it | adonises |
| we | adonise |
| you | adonise |
| they | adonise |
Perfect
| I | have adonised |
| you | have adonised |
| he;she;it | has adonised |
| we | have adonised |
| you | have adonised |
| they | have adonised |
Past
| I | adonised |
| you | adonised |
| he;she;it | adonised |
| we | adonised |
| you | adonised |
| they | adonised |
Pluperfect
| I | had adonised |
| you | had adonised |
| he;she;it | had adonised |
| we | had adonised |
| you | had adonised |
| they | had adonised |
Future
| I | will adonise |
| you | will adonise |
| he;she;it | will adonise |
| we | will adonise |
| you | will adonise |
| they | will adonise |
Future Perfect
| I | will have adonised |
| you | will have adonised |
| he;she;it | will have adonised |
| we | will have adonised |
| you | will have adonised |
| they | will have adonised |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | adonise |
| you | adonise |
| he;she;it | adonise |
| we | adonise |
| you | adonise |
| they | adonise |
Perfect
| I | have adonised |
| you | have adonised |
| he;she;it | have adonised |
| we | have adonised |
| you | have adonised |
| they | have adonised |
Imperfect
| I | adonised |
| you | adonised |
| he;she;it | adonised |
| we | adonised |
| you | adonised |
| they | adonised |
Pluperfect
| I | had adonised |
| you | had adonised |
| he;she;it | had adonised |
| we | had adonised |
| you | had adonised |
| they | had adonised |
Conditional
Present
| I | would adonise |
| you | would adonise |
| he;she;it | would adonise |
| we | would adonise |
| you | would adonise |
| they | would adonise |
Perfect
| I | would have adonised |
| you | would have adonised |
| he;she;it | would have adonised |
| we | would have adonised |
| you | would have adonised |
| they | would have adonised |
Imperative
| you | adonise |
| we | Let's adonise |
| you | adonise |
Verbs conjugated like 'adonise'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'adonise'
Adonise,
adonize,
agonise,
admonish,
Adonize,
advise,
agnise,
agonize,
anodise,
atomise,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Adonis + -ise.
Sample Sentences
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Delighted with each other......we rambled....arm in arm......about the citron groves;.......and, when a mossy bank invited our repose...my charmer would weave garlands of flowers to adonise her shepherd ; ..........recline upon my arm..... and to the gentle lullaby of a murmuring stream..... sink into forgetfulness [1804, Christoph Martin Wieland, Confessions in Elysium: Or, The Adventures of a Platonic, pages 73–74:]
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Formerly, if not exactly to the same extent at the present day, mineral substances were only made use of to adonise the complexion ; indeed, every composition is qualified with this name, whether it be white or red, which women, and even men (coxcombs), with a clear skin, subserve to embellish their faces, with a view to imitate the colours of youth, or artificially to repair the absence of them. [1830, an old army surgeon, Economy of the hands and feet, fingers and toes, page 107:]
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Of all the looming Negroes that Lincoln could have brought into the White House to adonise his cause, Johnson had been his choice, with the scuttling train of a monitor lizard. [2013, Steven Douglas, Lincoln’s Bedsheet, →ISBN:]
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Leaving a breath to swell his tradesmen's books, To adonise, to smile, and kill with looks; [1820, Peter Bayley, Sketches from St. George's Fields, page 122:]
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Since I parted with Darnley, who went in to adonise, I believe, Cameron has been hindering me with acknowledgments and regrets. [1859, Mrs. Octavius Freire Owen, Raised to the Peerage: A Novel, page 158:]
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Whenever I find myself growing vapourish, I rouse myself, wash, and put on a clean shirt, brush my hair and clothes, tie my shoestrings neatly, and in fact adonise as I were going out. [1891, John Keats (ed Sir Sidney Colvin), Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends, page 291:]