Orno, ornas, ornâre. Cicer.To garnish, decke, or trimme: to furnish: to apparayle: to make readie: to make fayre: to prepare: to make meete: to honour with some authoritie or dignitie: to doe some honorable pleasure to. To prayse: to set forth and commende.Populus ornabat ædem frondibus. Propert. The people adorned or decked.Gemma ornabat man us. Propert. Sepulchrum floribus ornare.Cic.To dresse and trimme. Ornare.Cic.To aduance or doe some honourable benesite to one: to extoll and set foorth.Augere & ornare thetoricen.Cic.Ornare aliquem, & Spoliare contratia.Cic.Mirabilius & magnificentius augere aliquid & ornare.Cic.Ars ornat aliquem.Cicer.Ones arte commendeth him or setteth him foorth.Donis ornatur honestis. Horat. He is enriched with honest giftes.Vestire & oratione ornare inuenta.Cicer.With wordes to decke and set forth things inuented.Moríbus ornas res Italas. Horat. Ornare munus verbis.Terent.With wordes to set forth ones present or gift.Ornare & illuminare orationem.Cic.To adorne and giue light too.Scientiam iuris ciuilis nouo ornatu ornare.Cic.With newe furniture to adorne and set forth.Ornari & exornari ab aliquo.Cic.Omnibus rebus aliquem ornare.Cic.To do all things to the aduauncement of ones honour.Amplissimis & honorificentissimis rebus aliquem ornare.Cic.With very great and noble benesltes to aduance ones honour.
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orno, āvi, ātum, 1 (old form of the perf. ORNAVET, Column. Rostr.; v. infra), v. a. [perh. root var-, cover; Sanscr. varna-, color], to fit out, furnish, provide with necessaries; to equip, to get ready, prepare (class.; syn. exorno, concinno). I. In gen.: age nunc, orna te, Plaut. Ep. 2, 2, 10: prandium domi, id. Rud. 1, 2, 53: ornatur ferro Enn. ap. Gell. 16, 10 (Ann. v. 190 Vahl.): aliquem armis, Verg. A. 12, 344: decemviros apparitoribus, scribis, librariis, praeconibus, architectis, praeterea mulis, tabernaculis, centuriis, supellectili, Cic. Agr. 2, 13, 32: aliquem pecuniā, Plin. Ep. 3, 21, 3: CLASESQVE-NAVALES-PRIMOS-ORNAVET, fitted out, Column. Rostr.: maximas classes, Cic. Imp. Pomp. 4, 9; cf. Liv. 9, 30: naves, id. 40, 26: convivium, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 20, 44: copias omnibus rebus, id. Imp. Pomp. 8, 20: provincias,
to furnish money
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arms
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and attendants to governors setting out for their provinces
, id. Att. 3, 24, 1; id. ib. 4, 18, 2; Liv. 40, 36, 5; so, consules, id. ib.—Hence, to trim, provide with oil: lampades, Vulg. Matt. 25, 7.—II. In partic., to ornament, adorn, embellish, deck, set off.A.Lit.: Italiam ornare quam domum suam, maluit: quamquam, Italiā ornatā, domus ipsa mihi videtur ornatior, Cic. Off. 2, 22, 76: scuta ad forum ornandum, Liv. 9, 40: cornua sertis, Verg. A. 7, 488: monilia collum, Ov. M. 5, 52.—Of dressing the hair, Ov. Am. 1, 14, 5: capillos, id. ib. 2, 7, 23; Prop. 1, 2, 1.—B.Trop., to adorn, decorate, set off; to commend, praise, extol; to honor, show honor to, distinguish: aliquid magnificentius augere atque ornare, Cic. de Or. 1, 21, 94: seditiones ipsas, id. ib. 2, 28, 124: aliquem suis sententiis, id. Fam. 15, 4, 11: dicere, laudandum adulescentem, ornandum, tollendum, Brut. ap. Cic. Fam. 11, 20, 1: civitatem omnibus rebus, Caes. B. G. 7, 33: aliquem maximis beneficiis, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 5: aliquem laudibus, id. Phil. 2, 11, 25: egressum alicujus frequentiā suā, id. Pis. 13, 31: candidatum suffragio, Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 8: aliquem ornare, to bestow honor upon, advance to honor, Cic. Fam. 1, 1: hederā poëtam, Verg. E. 7, 25.—Ironically: ornatus esses,
would have been rewarded
, Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 22.—Hence, ornātus, a, um, P. a.A.Fitted out, furnished, provided with necessaries, equipped, accoutred, splendidly furnished (class.; syn.: instructus, praeditus): sapiens plurimis artibus instructus et ornatus, Cic. Fin. 2, 34, 112: scutis telisque parati ornatique, id. Caecin. 21, 60: equus ornatus, Liv. 27, 19: elephantus, Nep. Hann. 3, 4: naves paratissimae, atque omni genere armorum ornatissimae, Caes. B. G. 3, 14: fundus, Cic. Quint. 31, 98: Graecia copiis non instructa solum, sed etiam ornata,
not provided merely
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but also splendidly furnished
, id. Phil. 10, 4, 9.—Transf.: ingenio bono, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 89.—B. In partic., ornamented, adorned, decked, decorated, embellished, handsome, ornate: sepulcrum floribus ornatum, Cic. Fl. 38, 95.—Comp.: nihil ornatius, Cic. Sen. 16, 57.—Esp., adorned with all good qualities, excellent, distinguished, eminent, illustrious: lectissimus atque ornatissimus adulescens, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 9, 29: in dicendo, id. de Or. 1, 10, 42; id. ib. 1, 11, 49: homo ornatissimus loco, ordine, nomine, virtute, ingenio, copiis,