Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an ornamental manner; by way of ornament or embellishment; as regards ornamentation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb By way of ornament.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In an
ornamental way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in an ornamental, nonfunctional manner
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Examples
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In this species the suspension may resolve ornamentally, that is, it may have some note or notes interpolated between the suspension and its resolution.
A Treatise on Simple Counterpoint in Forty Lessons Friedrich Johann Lehmann
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Was her sole function to lie ornamentally at Jabba's feet or did he ultimately intend her to be his love slave?
Mark Edlitz: Fashion by Jabba the Hutt Mark Edlitz 2010
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In the states it is generally planted ornamentally, perhaps as a reminder of our European ancestry.
The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree Nancy Armstrong 2010
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It's a matter of organizing your edibles as ornamentally as you do shrubs, annuals and perennials.
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Some Quakers refused to use firearms for personal defense, or even to carry arms ornamentally.
The Volokh Conspiracy » New article on the right to arms in early Pennsylvania 2009
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The lack of ornamentally extravagant surroundings coupled with the fair pay practices would be the reason The People's Health Insurance Company would be able to offer everyone and anyone who is a citizen of the US or is even visiting the US any medical care necessary.
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When the meeting was over we were shown into a high-ceilinged intermediary room, a great banqueting hall, with a fine, thick, ornamentally patterned carpet.
Archive 2009-10-01 David McDuff 2009
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That kale is beautiful both ornamentally and vegetatively!
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Nor, for that matter, did they dine more ornamentally in the Baroque period, or more rationally during the Enlightenment.
Delizia! John Dickie 2008
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But his successors unfortunately returned to the German; the initial I, having from the xiii century been ornamentally lengthened and bent leftwards, became a consonant.
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