1854 Trustee Committee on Statuary: Legal Opinion on Statuary Appropriation (page 08)

Society all the powers which that Society had
unless the tenth section of the Charter above
quoted, does limit it. We think that there
is no such limitation to be found 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 construing the
powers 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. Met. 513 -
that the words "rights, privileges and immunities,"
as applied to parishes and religious societies,
are large enough and fitly adapted to include
a capacity to receive gifts and donations not
only for the direct puposes for which they
were constituted, but for purposes which by
usage and custom and the general consent
of enlightened persons are regarded as as anal-
agous thereto."

The common definition of embellishment
is "ornament" or "decoration-" But in Johnson's
folio, he gives also "adventitious beauty" and
"adscititious" grace - "Adscititious" again he
defines as meaning - "that which is taken in
to complete something else, though originally