||Beau`se`ant" (&?;), n. [F. beaucéant.] The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.
Beau"ship (&?;), n. The state of being a beau; the personality of a beau. [Jocular] Dryden.
Beau"te*ous (&?;), a. Full of beauty; beautiful; very handsome. [Mostly poetic] -- Beau"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Beau"te*ous*ness, n.
Beau"tied (&?;), p. a. Beautiful; embellished. [Poetic] Shak.
Beau"ti*fi`er (&?;), n. One who, or that which, beautifies or makes beautiful.
Beau"ti*ful (b"t*fl), a. Having the qualities which constitute beauty; pleasing to the sight or the mind.
A circle is more beautiful than a square; a square is more beautiful than a parallelogram.
Lord Kames.
Syn. -- Handsome; elegant; lovely; fair; charming; graceful; pretty; delightful. See Fine.
-- Beau"ti*ful*ly, adv. -- Beau"ti*ful*ness, n.
Beau"ti*fy (b"t*f), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beautified (- fd); p. pr. & vb. n. Beautifying.] [Beauty + -fy.] To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.
The arts that beautify and polish life.
Burke.
Syn. -- To adorn; grace; ornament; deck; decorate.
Beau"ti*fy, v. i. To become beautiful; to advance in beauty. Addison.
Beau"ti*less, a. Destitute of beauty. Hammond.
Beau"ty (b"t), n.; pl. Beauties (&?;). [OE. beaute, beute, OF. beauté, biauté, Pr. beltat, F. beauté, fr. an assumed LL. bellitas, from L. bellus pretty. See Beau.]
1. An assemblage of graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense.
Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder.
Locke.
The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole.
Wordsworth.
The old definition of beauty, in the Roman school, was, "multitude in unity;" and there is no doubt that such is the principle of beauty.
Coleridge.
2. A particular grace, feature, ornament, or excellence; anything beautiful; as, the beauties of nature.