embellishes

If one thing be embellished, and another thing embellishes it, could we say that the embellished thing reacts?

It embellishes the denizen of the city, and hides the nakedness of barbarism.

The material style of her beauty was of that sumptuous order which wealth embellishes to its greatest perfection.

The charms and graces of existence, whatever ennobles and embellishes life, we owe mainly to them.

The City seems give up to snow; which I can't say it greatly embellishes it.