ornate

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
ornate
    adj 1: marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with
           decorative details; "a flowery speech"; "ornate rhetoric
           taught out of the rule of Plato"-John Milton [syn:
           {flowery}, {ornate}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ornate \Or*nate"\, a. [L. ornatus, p. p. of ornare to adorn.]
   1. Elaborately adorned or decorated; beautifully sumptuous.
      "So bedecked, ornate, and gay." --Milton.
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   2. Finely finished, as a style of composition.
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            A graceful and ornate rhetoric.       --Milton.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Ornate \Or*nate"\, v. t.
   To adorn; to honor. [R.]
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         They may ornate and sanctify the name of God.
                                                  --Latimer.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "ornate":
      adorned, arabesque, aureate, baroque, befrilled, busy, chichi,
      colored, decorated, elaborate, elegant, embellished, embroidered,
      fancy, festooned, figurative, figured, fine, flamboyant, florid,
      flowery, frilly, fussy, gilded, high-wrought, labored, luscious,
      lush, luxuriant, luxurious, moresque, opulent, ostentatious,
      overcharged, overdone, overelaborate, overelegant, overlabored,
      overloaded, overworked, overwrought, picturesque, pretty-pretty,
      purple, resplendent, rich, rococo, sumptuous
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