#577. Ornament. -- N. ornament; floridness c[obs]. adj. turgidity, turgescence[obs]; altiloquence &c. adj[obs].; declamation, teratology|!; well-rounded periods; elegance &c. 578; orotundity.
inversion, antithesis, alliteration, paronomasia; figurativeness &c. (metaphor) 521.
flourish; flowers of speech, flowers of rhetoric; frills of style, euphuism[obs], euphemism.
big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology[obs], sesquipedalia verba[Lat], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant, bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality[obs]; Minerva press.
phrasemonger; euphuist[obs], euphemist.
V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp.
Adj. ornament &c. v.; beautified &c. 847; ornate, florid, rich, flowery; euphuistic[obs], euphemistic; sonorous; high-sounding, big- sounding; inflated, swelling, tumid; turgid, turgescent; pedantic, pompous, stilted; orotund; high flown, high flowing; sententious, rhetorical, declamatory; grandiose; grandiloquent, magniloquent, altiloquent[obs]; sesquipedal[obs], sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian; frothy, flashy, flaming.
antithetical, alliterative; figurative &c. 521; artificial &c. (inelegant) 579.
Adv. ore rutundo[Lat].