style of court

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style of court - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Style \Style\, n. [OE. stile, F. style, Of. also stile, L.
     stilus a style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode
     of expression; probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking
     instrument, and akin to E. stick. See Stick, v. t., and cf.
     Stiletto. The spelling with y is due to a supposed
     connection with Gr. sty^los a pillar.]
     1. An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets
        covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the
        other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of
        making erasures by smoothing the wax.
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     2. Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or
        use. Specifically: 
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        (a) A pen; an author's pen. --Dryden.
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        (b) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
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        (c) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
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        (d) (Zool.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the
            anal styles of insects.
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        (e) [Perhaps fr. Gr. sty^los a pillar.] The pin, or
            gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the
            hour. See Gnomon.
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        (f) [Probably fr. Gr. sty^los a pillar.] (Bot.) The
            elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the
            stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
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     3. Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or
        written; especially, such use of language in the
        expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty
        of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse;
        rhetorical expression.
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              High style, as when that men to kinges write.
                                                    --Chaucer.
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              Style is the dress of thoughts.       --Chesterfield.
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              Proper words in proper places make the true
              definition of style.                  --Swift.
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              It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a
              great work.                           --I. Disraeli.
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     4. Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the
        fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing
        in idea or accomplishing a result.
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              The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar
              merit.                                --Sir J.
                                                    Reynolds.
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     5. Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is
        deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social
        demeanor; fashion.
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              According to the usual style of dedications. --C.
                                                    Middleton.
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     6. Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated;
        the title; the official designation of any important body;
        mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.
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              One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a
              proud, insulting foe.                 --Burke.
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     7. (Chron.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the
        Julian and Gregorian calendars.
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     Note: Style is Old or New. The Old Style follows the Julian
           manner of computing the months and days, or the
           calendar as established by Julius Caesar, in which
           every fourth year consists of 366 days, and the other
           years of 365 days. This is about 11 minutes in a year
           too much. Pope Georgy XIII. reformed the calendar by
           retrenching 10 days in October, 1582, in order to bring
           back the vernal equinox to the same day as at the time
           of the Council of Nice, a. d. 325. This reformation was
           adopted by act of the British Parliament in 1751, by
           which act 11 days in September, 1752, were retrenched,
           and the third day was reckoned the fourteenth. This
           mode of reckoning is called New Style, according to
           which every year divisible by 4, unless it is divisible
           by 100 without being divisible by 400, has 366 days,
           and any other year 365 days.
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     Style of court, the practice or manner observed by a court
        in its proceedings. --Ayliffe.
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     Syn: Diction; phraseology; manner; course; title. See
          Diction.
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