honesto

hŏnesto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to clothe or adorn with honor; to honor, dignify; to adorn, grace, embellish (class.; cf. honoro), with personal or inanimate objects.

1.

With personal objects quom me tanto honore honestas, Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 106; 2, 1, 50; cf.:

quod non dignos homines honore honestatos videbam,

Sall. C. 35, 3 Kritz.:

tantam laudem, quantā vos me vestris decretis honestatis, nemo est assecutus, Cic Cat 4, 10, 20: Saturnini imagine mortem ejus honestare,

id. Rab. Perd. 9, 24; id. Sull. 29, 81; id. Off. 1, 39, 139:

haec famigeratio Te honestet, me autem collutulet,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 67:

ad eum augendum atque honestandum,

Cic. Off. 2, 6, 21:

a quibus, si interdum ad forum deducimur, si uno basilicae spatio honestamur, diligenter observari videmur et coli,

are honored by being accompanied through the basilica, id. Mur. 34, 70:

summi viri Gracchorum et Flacci sanguine non modo se non contaminarunt, sed etiam honestarunt,

id. Cat. 1, 12, 29:

quem vultus honestat, Dedecorant mores,

Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 26; cf.:

arma auro et argento distincta corpus rarae magnitudinis honestabant,

Curt. 8, 44, 7:

ingens corpus erat (Navii), et arma honestabant,

Liv. 26, 5, 16.—

II.

With inanimate objects:

nec domo dominus, sed domino domus honestanda est,

Cic. Off. 1, 39, 139:

L. Pauli currum rex nobilissimus Perses honestavit,

id. Cat. 4, 10, 21:

caput (avis) plumeo apice honestante (with distinguere),

Plin. 10, 2, 2, § 3; cf. Curt. 8, 13:

formam pudor honestabat,

id. 6, 2; 3, 6 fin.:

exornatio est, qua utimur rei honestandae et locupletandae causa,

adorn, Auct. Her. 2, 18, 28; Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 7.