Trustees Records, Volume 2, 1854 (page 007)

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in that section. On the contrary, the word "embellishment"
is large enough to include statuary either in the open
air or in the Chapel. In continuing the power of
the Proprietors of the Cemetery, we think that our Courts
would not follow the strict interpretation which the
English judges have given in the cases to which
we have referred, but would meet the question in the
same spirit which led them to declare in White
v. Braintree 13 Metcalf's Reports. 513, that the words
"rights and privileges and immunities" as applied to parishes
"and religious societies, are large enough and fitly
"adapted to include a capacity to receive gifts and dona-
"tions not only for the direct purposes for which they were
"constituted, but for the purposes which, by usage and custom
"and the general consent of enlightened persons, are re-
"garded as analagous thereto."

The common definition of embellishment is
"ornament" or "decoration". But in Johnson's folio,
he gives also "adventitous beauty" and "additional grace."
Adscititious, again he defined as meaning "that which
"is taken in to complete something else, though originally
"extrinsick." Though a little pompous this definition
seems to us remarkably exact, and to precisely describe
the place which statuary will supply in the Chapel
at Mount Auburn.

Webster's definition is as satisfactory "any
"thing that adds beauty or elegance; that which renders
"anything pleasing to the eye, or agreeable to the taste,
"in dress, furniture, manners or the fine arts". And
by way of illustration he says, "rich dresses are embellish