beautifying

When thou present’st me, Gellia, with an Hare, Marcus, thou say’st, ’twill make the seven Days fair. If Hare be such a beautifying Meat, Thou ne’er of one in all thy Life didst eat.

It evidently surpassed his majesty’s comprehension how any sober-minded and sensible individual could entertain the least possible objection to so beautifying an operation [i.e. being tattooed].

[…] I have found exercise far more beautifying than any surgical face-lift.

So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.