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Definition of Ornate
1. Adjective. Marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details. "Ornate rhetoric taught out of the rule of Plato"
Definition of Ornate
1. a. Adorned; decorated; beautiful.
2. v. t. To adorn; to honor.
Definition of Ornate
1. Adjective. elaborately ornamented, often to excess ¹
2. Adjective. flashy, flowery or showy ¹
3. Verb. (obsolete) To adorn; to honour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Ornate
1. elaborately or excessively ornamented [adj] : ORNATELY [adv]
Medical Definition of Ornate
1. A term that refers to the patterning of the scutum (gray or white markings on a dark background) in ixodid ticks. Origin: L. Ornatus, decorated (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ornate
Literary usage of Ornate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Criticism and Literary Taste in Europe from the Earliest Texts by George Saintsbury (1902)
"The everlasting questions of archaic or modern ornate or language, of conceited
or direct thought, of ornate or plain style. plain style, occupied the ..."
2. The Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales by Linnean Society of New South Wales (1896)
"DESCRIPTIONS OF FURTHER HIGHLY ornate BOOMERANGS FROM NEW SOUTH WALES AND ...
The most highly ornate of the five (Fig. 4) bears three incised loops formed ..."
3. The Life of William Cowper, Esq. by Robert Southey (1839)
"The "ornate style," which is the worst fashion that has ever been introduced into
English verse, began in Chaucer's time, and he adopted it in some of his ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"But he had another cross-connection with Landor (this time Leigh Hunt stood out),
that both were elaborate and deliberate writers of the most ornate prose ..."
5. The Connoisseur by George Colman, B. Thornton (1904)
"The officials all wear the very ornate Imperial livery, and are remarkably
courteous and attentive. The " MAD JULIET " position of the Chief Director is one ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"They conceived the idea of another life, more free, more ornate—in one word,
more 'human'—than that which they had been leading for five or six centuries; ..."
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