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Ornamentally   /ˌɔrnəmˈɛntəli/   Listen
Ornamentally

adverb
1.
In an ornamental, nonfunctional manner.






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"Ornamentally" Quotes from Famous Books



... fables it had believed in its infancy. Of the legends, some are allegorized, some are modified, some are repudiated. The great tragedians accept the myths in the aggregate, but decline them in particulars; some of the poets transform or allegorize them; some use them ornamentally, as graceful decorations. It is evident that between the educated and the vulgar classes a divergence is taking place, that the best men of the times see the necessity of either totally abandoning these cherished fictions to the lower orders, or of gradually replacing ...
— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

... quite delighted with the beauty of the channel, which was rather more than half-a-mile in width. Numberless mounds, that seemed to invite civilised man to erect his dwelling upon them, presented themselves to our view. The country round them was open, yet ornamentally wooded, and rocks and trees hung or drooped ...
— Two Expeditions into the Interior of Southern Australia, Complete • Charles Sturt



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