ADORN Copy link • ADORNornare (general term): decorate (opposed to what is ordinary or unseemly: ornare, opposed to what is paltryand incomplete. Dig.): exornare (to dress or deck out: also of adorning a speech): distinguere (to relieve, by ornaments placed here and there: also of a speech): comere (to dress, i. e., arrange ornamentally; e.g., the head, hair: also, figuratively, a speech). With anything, ornare, exornare, distinguere, or distinguere et ornare (see before), aliqua re; excolere aliqua re, or ornatu alicujus rei (to embellish with), e.g., the walls with marbles, parietes marmoribus; a roam with pictures, cubiculum tabolarum pictarum ornatu. To adorn one’s self, se exornare (to dress myself out). The heaven adorned with stars, caelum astris distinctum et omatum. Be an ornament to, decori, ornamento esse: decus afferre (all alicui or alicui rei).