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The third, and worst, degree of turpitude is reached when a masterpiece is planished and patted into such a shape, vilely beautified in such a fashion as to conform to the notions and prejudices of a given public.

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In his Lectures on Russian Literature Vladimir Nabokov maintains that "the third, and worst, degree of turpitude" in literary translation, after "obvious errors" and skipping over awkward passages, is reached when a masterpiece is planished and patted into such a shape, vilely beautified in such a fashion as to conform to the notions and prejudices of a given public.

Tolstoy's Real Hero Figes, Orlando 2007

He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.

Main Street 2004

When they have been smoothed and rounded, the surfaces are planished on the face by being placed separately in a die, under a small stamp, and causing them to receive a sharp blow from a polished steel hammer.

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 354, October 9, 1886 Various

Sheets of zinc or of copper of a convenient size are carefully planished and polished with powdered pumice stone.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882 Various

He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.

Main Street 1920

He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.

Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

Many a pleasant evening the two spent there, talking of locomotive planished iron, wire nails, and turnbuckles, and the late lunch Miss Monon served beat the system's regular buffet service a city block.

Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories Rex Ellingwood Beach 1913

In the same way it is also reported of the later mediæval Italian artists that they drew their subjects in "silver-style," upon planished fig-tree wood, the surface of which had been prepared with the powder obtained from calcined bones, -- a method, however, which seems only to have been employed in exceptional instances.

Forty Centuries of Ink 1904

-- A piece of brass or of polished copper, brass is preferred, is perfectly planished and its surface made perfectly clean.

American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype 1853