POLISH Copy link • POLISH 1. v. PROP., delevigare; expolire: perpolire; cote despumare (marble, etc.). Figuratively, expolire: perpolire. To polish anybody’s manners, excolere alicujus mores; moribus ornare aliquem: to polish a work, expolire; elimare (Quint., but very rare; exasciare only in exasciatus in Plaut.). 2. s. by the verbs, or by circumlocution with lima; e.g., his writings want polish, deest scriptis ejus ultima lima (Ov.); operi non accessit ultima lima (Cic.); so, also, oratio expolitione distincta (by its polish).