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1. WordNet® 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]

2. 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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3. 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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Thesaurus Results for ornate:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

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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