单词 | ornately |
释义 | ornatelyadv. In an ornate manner or style; with ornate language; elegantly. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [adverb] > ornamentally or ornately ornatelya1500 ornamentally1700 adorningly1845 decoratively1882 fancily1958 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [adverb] ornatelya1500 gorgeously1532 flourishingly1574 floridly1667 lusciously1779 chromatically1787 flowerily1886 a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum 434 in Poems (1899) 62 (MED) A king sholde enfourme his sone..to speke ornatly with equite. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxxiiijv A solempne oracion, to whom the Emperors Secretary answered ornatly. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 7 in Wks. (1931) I The poetis auld..Off euerilke mater..So ornatlie..Haith done indyte. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xviii. 708/1 He rehearsed them the same matter againe..so well and ornately, so euidently and plaine. 1697 tr. F. Burgersdijck Monitio Logica i. xviii. 71 The Internal of Oratory is to speak Ornately, and Accommodately to persuade; the External to persuade. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters xv. 328 Some of the ornately sculptured foliage. 1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xiii. 176 Sleek brown ready-made clothes with ornately curved cuffs and pocket flaps. 1942 Amer. Hist. Rev. 48 130 Floating palaces with lofty decks ornately iced like wedding cakes. 2002 D. Harris Portable Writing Desks 3 (caption) A Victorian desk of pine veneered with rosewood and ornately inlaid with brass. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.a1500 |
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