adorned vs elaborate

adorned

adj
  • Having been decorated or embellished through applied items or alterations (adornments). 

elaborate

adj
  • Intricate, fancy, flashy, or showy. 

  • Complex, detailed, or sophisticated. 

verb
  • to develop in detail or complexity 

  • (sometimes followed by on or upon, and then the object of the preposition) to expand/enlarge in detail 

How often have the words adorned and elaborate occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )