ornate (ornat)

[L. ornatus, pp.: see the verb.] 1. Ornamented; artistically finished; ornamental; of an ornamental character: especially applied to an elaborate literary style. For lak of ornat spec he I wold woo. Court of Love, 1. 34. His le ornate and le mechanical poems. Whipple , E . and Rev., I. 45. roundings: as, he is an ornament of his pro fes depart from simplicity-that his style is sometimes elab 4. One who adds luster to one's sphere or sursion. Gracious Lavinia, Rome's rich ornament. Shak., Tit. And., i. 1. 52. 5. Embellishment or adornments collectively or in the abstract; adornment; ornamentation; decoration: as, a thing suitable for either use or ornament. So it is not with me as with that Muse, Stirr'd by a painted beauty to his verse, Who heaven itself for ornament doth use. Dionysius admits that Demosthenes does at times orately ornate and remote from the ordinary usage. Encyc. Brit., VII. 72. 2. Adorned; decorated. But who is this, what thing of sea or land? Female of sex it seems, That so bedeck'd, ornate , and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately ship Of Tarsus. ornately (or-nat'li), adv. ner. Shak., Sonnets, xxi. ornatene (ôr-nāt'nes), n . Six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine; the pair that clad Each shoulder broad came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament. ornate or adorned. Milton , S. A., 1. 712. In an ornate man The state of being