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Webster 1913 Edition
Elegant
El′e-gant
,Adj.
1.
Very choice, and hence, pleasing to good taste; characterized by grace, propriety, and refinement, and the absence of every thing offensive; exciting admiration and approbation by symmetry, completeness, freedom from blemish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive;
as,
elegant
manners; elegant
style of composition; an elegant
speaker; an elegant
structure.A more diligent cultivation of
elegant
literature. Prescott.
Syn. – Tasteful; polished; graceful; refined; comely; handsome; richly ornamental.
Webster 1828 Edition
Elegant
EL'EGANT
,Adj.
1.
Polished, neat; pure; rich in expressions; correct in arrangement; as an elegant style or composition.2.
Uttering or delivering elegant language with propriety and grace; as an elegant speaker.3.
Symmetrical; regular; well formed in its parts, proportions and distribution; as an elegant structure.4.
Nice; sensible to beauty; discriminating beauty from deformity or imperfection; as an elegant taste. [This is a loose application of the word; elegant being used for delicate.]5.
Beautiful in form and colors; pleasing; as an elegant flower.6.
Rich; costly and ornamental; as elegant furniture or equipage.