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▪ I. ornate, ppl. a.|ɔːˈneɪt, ˈɔːnət|
Also 5–6 ornat.
[ad. L. ornāt-us, pa. pple. of ornā-re: see orn.]
†1. as pa. pple. Adorned, ornamented (with).
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) III. 317 A fowle man did schewe..to Diogenes his place ornate with riche apparaile. 1530Elyot Gov. i. iii, A sufficient nombre, ornate with vertue and wisedome. 1771Antiq. Sarisb. 187 An image of God the Father..ornate with red stones.
2. as adj. Ornamented; elaborately adorned; highly decorated or embellished. Also fig.
1503Hawes Examp. Virt. vii. xxix, Lyke a vessell chosen and made ornat. 1538Starkey England ii. i. 178 Our cuntrey..wyl not suffur to be so ornat and so beutyful in euery degre as other cuntreys be. 1671Milton Samson 712 Femal of sex it seems, That so bedeckt, ornate, and gay, Comes this way sailing Like a stately Ship Of Tarsus. 1829Coleridge Sibyl. Leaves II. 329 Thou brightest star of star-bright Italy! Rich, ornate, populous, all treasures thine. 1882Contemp. Rev. XLII. 681 If we go to churches where the services are ornate, we see a far larger proportion of women than we wish to see.
b. Of literary or oratorical style: Embellished with choice language or flowers of rhetoric.
a1420Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1973 Bookes of his ornat endyting, That is to al þis land enlumynyng. 1538Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 71 Because the mater bene so vyle, It may nocht have an ornate style. 1564Becon Wks. Gen. Pref., The eloquent orators with their sugared and ornate eloquence. 1816Gentl. Mag. LXXXVI. i. 51 The ornate style of poetry. 1858Gladstone Homer III. 531 In diction Virgil is ornate and Homer simple.
▪ II. † orˈnate, v. Obs.
[f. L. ornāt-, ppl. stem of ornāre: see prec. and -ate3.]
trans. To ornament, adorn, embellish.
1495Trevisa's Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxvi. (W. de W.) S j b/1 Palma is a tree of vyctory, for therwyth the vyctours honde is ornatyd. 1508Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. cii. Wks. (1876) 181 Yf thou wolde edyfy and ornate thy chyrche on this maner. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxi. §134. 1037 All these foresaid figures, stories, and ornaments shall be made to garnish and ornate the two Pillars of the Church. 1651Fuller's Abel Rediv., Piscator (1867) II. 313 I' th' German tongue the Bible he translated, And it with learn'd Analysis ornated.
Hence † orˈnated ppl. a., † orˈnating vbl. n.
1491Caxton Vitas Patr. (W. de W. 1495) ii. 176 b/2 Som⁓tyme ornatynge of wordes maketh the proposycion to be withdrawen fro the trouthe. 1630J. Taylor (Water P.) Wks. (N.), Had I that admir'd ornated stile Of Petrark. |
单词 ornamentist 释义 ornamentist[f. ornament n. + -ist.]A professional decorator; a desig......