ornate

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Elaborately ornamented, often to excess.

   The house of Ruthven was a small but ultra-modern limestone affair, between Madison and Fifth ;[…]. As a matter of fact its narrow ornate façade presented not a single quiet space that the eyes might rest on after a tiring attempt to follow and codify the arabesques, foliations, and intricate vermiculations of what some disrespectfully dubbed as “near-aissance.”

2. 2
   adj

   Finely finished, as a style of composition.

   a graceful and ornate rhetoric

3. 3
   verb

   To adorn or honour (someone or something).

   And truely thoſe that lyue in the feare of god, (conſydering that they ſerue not only their carnal maiſters, but God hymſelfe,) they be in a good caſe: but they may not bee eye ſeruauntes. […] Saincte Paule woulde haue them to lyue ſo, that they maye ornate and ſanctifye the name of God.

4. 4
   adj

   marked by elaborate rhetoric and elaborated with decorative details

5. 5
   adj

   Flashy, flowery or showy.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ōrnātus, perfect passive participle of ōrnō (“to equip, adorn”), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). Doublet of orné.