ornaturet (ornatur)

[OF. or nature = Milton, P. L., v. 280. It. or natura, 6. Outward appearance; mere display. The world is still deceived with ornament. Shak., M. of V., iii. 2. 74. Key ornament. Same as fret3, 2.- Kim me ridge-coal ornaments, jewelry for the person, necklaces, etc., often found in tumuli in the north of England, composed of the material known as Kim me ridge shale, a ociated with pieces of bone and similar materials, and often very delicately formed. They vary in epoch from a purely Celtic to a Roman-British period. - Ornaments rubric, the rubric immediately preceding Morning Prayer in the present English Book of Common Prayer (1662). It directs that "such Ornaments of the Church, and the Ministers thereof, at all times of their Ministrations, shall be retained and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth." Controversy as to the lawful ritual of the Church of England has centered for many years around the question whether the ornaments rubric is still in force. The decisions of the ecclesiastical and law courts on the subject have varied, and have not succeeded in putting an end to the controversy or in enforcing uniformity of usage. Syn. Embellishment, adornment. See adorn.