575.
Adv. in plain terms, in plain words, in plain English, in plain common
parlance; point-blank.
#577. Ornament. -- N. ornament; floridness c[obs3]. adj. turgidity,
turgescence[obs3]; altiloquence &c. adj[obs3].; 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[obs3], euphemism.
big-sounding words, high-sounding words; macrology[obs3],
sesquipedalia verba[Lat], Alexandrine; inflation, pretension; rant,
bombast, fustian, prose run mad; fine writing; sesquipedality[obs3];
Minerva press.
phrasemonger; euphuist[obs3], euphemist.
V. ornament, overlay with ornament, overcharge; smell of the lamp.
Adj. ornament &c. v.; beautified &c. 847; ornate, florid, rich,
flowery; euphuistic[obs3], 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[obs3];
sesquipedal[obs3], sesquipedalian; Johnsonian, mouthy; bombastic; fustian;
frothy, flashy, flaming.
antithetical, alliterative; figurative &c.
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