stylen.

Brit.

/stʌɪl/, U.S.

/staɪl/

Forms: Middle English steel, Middle English stele, Middle English stiel, Middle English styele, Middle English styell, Middle English styyl, Middle English–1500s still (northern), Middle English–1800s stile, Middle English– style, 1500s–1600s steele; Scottish pre-1700 steille, pre-1700 stil, pre-1700 still, pre-1700 stille, pre-1700 styill, pre-1700 styl, pre-1700 styll, pre-1700 stylle, pre-1700 1700s stile, pre-1700 1700s– style.

Origin: Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French style; Latin stilus.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French estile, stil, stile, style (French style ) manner of speaking (c1250 as estil ; c1393 as stille ), manner of behaving (c1290 in Old French as estile ; c1350 as stile ), manner of writing (early 14th cent. as estile ; 1372 as stile ), mode of dating (1334 as stile ), title, mode of address (1340 as estile ), legal regulation, customary manner of court proceedings (1346), pointed instrument for writing (late 14th cent.), literary work (c1400), custom, usage (mid 16th cent.), form of written or spoken discourse characterized by literary or rhetorical techniques (1548), gnomon of a sundial (1562), surgical instrument (1672), manner in which a work of art is executed (1699), character of the works of writers or artists of the same country or period (1734), mode of behaviour, mode of living (1771), also (in botany) pistil, part of a pistil (1694 or earlier), (in anatomy) bony protuberance (1812), (in entomology) bristle or seta of the antenna of a dipter (1825 or earlier: see note), and their etymon (ii) classical Latin stilus (also stylus, after ancient Greek στῦλος : see note) stake or spike, stem of a plant, pointed instrument for writing, action or practice of writing, manner of speaking or writing, in post-classical Latin also literary work, (foreign) language (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), text, passage (of a book) (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), gnomon of a sundial (5th cent.), written record of a legal transaction (from 12th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources), customary manner of court proceedings, (in a list or account) heading, title (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), custom, usage (13th cent.), official title, mode of address (from 13th cent. in British sources), surgical instrument (14th cent. in a British source), mode of dating (14th cent.), pistil (1675 or earlier), (in scientific Latin) part of the pistil (1720 or earlier), bristle-like process in the anal region (1817 or earlier), perhaps < a stem also seen in classical Latin stimulus stimulus n.Spelling variation The variant style , now the predominant spelling (as also in French) reflects the Latin variant stylus : this in turn is influenced by ancient Greek στῦλος column (see styloid adj.), and the view that this was the source of these words. Specific senses Modern dictionaries of French ( Trésor de la langue française and Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch) treat French style in senses 8, 9, 10 as deriving from ancient Greek στῦλος, but in fact the Greek word does not have any comparable senses, and Latin stilus is used for a plant stem already in classical Latin. In entomology and zoology, style is used to denote various small, pointed entities (compare senses 9, 10): these uses would seem to derive more naturally from Latin stilus spike, pointed instrument, than from Greek στῦλος pillar, column. Parallels in other European languages Compare Old Occitan estilh (c1350), stilh (1419), Italian stilo, stile (14th cent.), Spanish estilo (15th cent.), Portuguese estilo (14th cent.), German Stil (early 15th cent.).

I. Stylus, pin, stalk.

a. Ancient History. An instrument made of metal, bone, etc., having one end sharp-pointed for incising letters on a wax tablet, and the other flat and broad for smoothing the tablet and erasing what is written: = stylus n. 1. Also applied to similar instruments in later use.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > stylus

pointela1382

stylea1387

greffea1400

gad1570

pointrel1659

steel1738

stylet1753

stylus1807

a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 297 Seinte Barnabe his body was founde in a den..with þe gospel of Mathew þat he hadde i-write wiþ his owne stile [L. stylo].

c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. lxiii. viii Whiche me nede not with my stile auaunce.

1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 7/2 Graphium, a writing wyer, or a steele wherewith to write or note.

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis ix. 187 Then fits her trembling hands to write: One holds the wax, the style [L. ferrum] the other guides.

1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 395 Liber Ceylonicus, writ with a style upon the Leaves of Trees.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying A Welsh slate with a sharp stile..is more convenient at such a season, than pen, ink, and paper.

1840 T. Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxxii. 295 He had his tablets and his style in his hands, to record the votes.

1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 270 To trace a curve..by the continued motion of a pencil or stile.

1864 G. Ticknor Life William Hickling Prescott x. 134 The whole apparatus is called a noctograph. When it has been adjusted..the person using it writes with an ivory style, or with a style made of some harder substance, like agate, on the upper surface of the blackened paper.

1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche ix. x. 108 All which he took his silver stile to write In letters large upon a waxèd board.

b. Used as a weapon of offence, for stabbing, etc.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > writing instrument as weapon

style1669

1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 67 Methinks every point I direct my pen to should be the Sharp Execution of a Stile at their hearts.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. C. Gracchus in Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 892/1 They immediately killed Antyllius with long styles, said to have been made for such a purpose.

1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. xii. 246 A vague tradition, that the boys, whom the sophist taught, provoked by his severity, had stabbed him with their styles for writing.

1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlviii. 465 The senators fell upon the wretched man and stabbed him to death with their styles.

c. figurative, or as a symbol of literary composition.

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1579 G. Fenton in tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin Ep. Ded. Suche as for the grauitie and fidelitie of their penne and style were cherished with the greatest Princes of those dayes.

1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III (1844) 27 Crown'd be his stile with fame, his head with bayes.

1655 J. Denham Coopers Hill (new ed.) 7 But Princes swords are sharper then their styles.

1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 329 Their swords and their styles carved out their way with equal sharpness.

1827 T. Hood Ode to Melancholy 55 Where Death, with his keen-pointed style, Hath writ the common doom.

†d. to turn one's style: to change to another subject; also, to speak on the other side. [Compare classical Latin stilum vertere] Similarly to address, bend, direct, dress, gye, etc. one's style. Obsolete.

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the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > change to another subject

to address, bend, direct, dress, gye, etc. one's stylea1400

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13001 Leue we him a littel quille And turn we to sant Iohn vr still.

c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 4890 To declare yt and expresse, A noon I wil my style dresse.

c1410 J. Lydgate Life Our Lady lxvii. (1484) k iij That thorow thyn helpe I may my style gye Somwhat to sey of thyn epyphanye.

c1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 3362 Wher, for a tyme, I wil leue him dwelle, And to Grekis..directe ageyn my stile.

a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 2124 Thus leue I hym ride forth a while, whilys that I retourne ageyn my style Vnto the kyng.

a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. Cii^v I..can not in effect My style as yet direct With englysh wordes clere.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 220 At this dewys I leif thame heir ane quhile, And to the Romanis turne I will my style.

1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iii. i. 333 Here let us..addresse our stile to other statutes.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. K3 But saith hee, Turne your stile, and let vs heare what you can say against vs.

1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 159 This young man quite turning his stile when his Master had strayed from the right way of vertue, beganne to cry out against his inconstancy.

1650 Bp. J. Hall Revelation Unrevealed vii. 69 Reverend and holy Dionysius bent his style, in two books of the promises of God.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 146 Where, leave we Him and Ralph awhile, And to the Conjurer turn our stile.

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 26 To gentle Arcite let us turn our Style.

2. An engraving-tool; a graver.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools

pouncer1552

graving tool1591

pounce1598

puncheon1659

burin1662

eschoppe1662

graver1662

needle1662

point1662

style1662

sculpter1680

scalper1688

small chisel1749

roulette1806

engraver1821

dry-point1837

scooper1837

stylet1853

tint-tool1869

diamond-point1874

spit-sticker1909

bull-sticker1933

1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura i. 7 The γλύϕιον Style, or Scalprum.

1682 J. Dryden Medall 2 The Style that copy'd every grace, And plough'd such furrows for an Eunuch face.

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 706 Nor does the chissel occupy alone The pow'rs of sculpture, but the style as much.

1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. i. 10 The outlines were traced with a firm but pliant style, which they called Cestrum.

†3. A pointed instrument used for marking. Obsolete.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > marking tools > [noun] > scoring

style1659

scorer1688

ruling engine1826

scrieve1828

timber-scribe1858

1659 J. Twysden Precepts Refracted Dials 12, in S. Foster Miscellanea With some stile or dent make a mark where the point of the Gnomon is reposed through the water, upon the side of the Vessel.

4. Surgery. A blunt-pointed probe.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > probe or sound

tenta1400

probe?a1425

search?a1425

sequere mea1425

searcher?c1425

searching iron1477

prove?1541

privet1598

proof1611

style1631

seeker1658

searching instrument1663

stylet1697

stiletto1699

breast-probe1739

sound1797

sounder1875

tracer1882

1631 H. Crooke Expl. Instr. Chirurg. 7 Then it will be necessary to seare the Vlcer with a Style blunt at the end, and red hot running in a hollow pype.

1846 J. Miller Pract. Surg. 98 To accomplish this, styles—or small bougies—are employed.

1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 157 Style for Fistula Lachrymalis (Walton's), silver.

5. A hard point for tracing, in manifold writing; the marking-point in a telegraph or phonograph.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > point of pen > separate point > type of

style1871

1871 R. S. Culley Handbk. Pract. Telegr. (ed. 5) 205 A lever carrying a point or style, which embosses a mark upon a band of paper carried forward by wheelwork.

1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. iii. §1. 451 A very light style attached to the incus or stapes is made to write on a travelling surface.

1881 Nature 20 Oct. 582/2 A style concentric with the shaft presses lightly against a compound sheet of tracing and carbonised paper attached to the under side of the table.

6. gen. A fixed pointer, pin, or finger for indicating a point or position. Cf. stylus n. 4.

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1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 361 We must tary vntyll the poynt or style of the clocke do exactly come to the poynt of sum houre.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. f. 207 A little round squire of brasse,..the head or stile whereof is to shewe the shadowe of the Sunne being set vpon the Globe.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iii. 76 Placing therein two stiles or needles composed of the same steele, touched with the same Loadstone, and at the same point.

1664 J. Evelyn tr. L. Alberti Statues in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 152 The Style is a streight Ruler, one end whereof is fixt in the center of the said Circle, the other end moves about at pleasure, so as that it may be easily transfer'd and directed from one division of the Circle to another.

a. The pin, rod, or triangular plate which forms the gnomon of a sun-dial.

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the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > parts of

pinOE

gnomon1546

style1577

cock1585

hour-line1593

substyle1593

index1594

noon-line1596

incliner1638

substylara1652

substylar linea1652

staff1669

nodus1678

node1704

stylus1796

noon-mark1842

sun line1877

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. i. f. 96^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Among the Persians onelye the king dined when the sonne was at the highest, and shadowe of the stile at the shortest.

1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. f. 51^v That shadowe is called Vmbra versa which proceedeth from some right style or pearch being thrust into a wall or post standing right vp and not leaning.

1651 J. White Rich Cabinet 44 The Stile may be made of a thin Iron plate, and cemented in, or of a stiffe wire.

1764 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. 197 The edge of the plane by which the time of the day is found, is called the stile of the dial.

1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. xiii. 104 The shadow of the stile of a dial.

1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §402. 193 In practice,..all we want is a projection called a style, parallel to the earth's axis,..and a dial.

b. defined as a line.

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society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing lines > [noun] > other lines

linea1382

rulec1475

stroke1567

trig1648

ductor1658

style1690

pencil line1758

guideline1785

section-line1827

subhorizon1829

broken line1937

wiggle1942

1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 704 Draw the Line CF for the Axis, or Stile of your Dial.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Style, in Dyalling, is that Line whose Shadow on the Plane of the Dyal, shews the true Hour-Line. This is always supposed to be a part of the Axis of the Earth, and therefore must always be so placed, as that with its two extreme Points it shall respect the two Poles of the World, and with its Upper-end, the elevated Pole. This Line is the Upper-edge of the Cock, Gnomon, or Index.

8. Botany. A narrowed prolongation of the ovary, which, when present, supports the stigma at its apex.

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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > style or pistil and related parts

chire1398

chithe1398

chyde?a1500

chive1535

clapper1578

dodkin1578

pestle1597

pointel1597

umbone1633

style1682

pistillum1703

pistil1717

stylet1720

stylus1729

column1807

gynobase1830

gynaeceum1832

stylopodium1832

stylopod1849

gynostegium1880

pistillode1904

columna-

1682 S. Gilbert Florists Vade-mecum 201 The flowers..opening into five fair broad leaves, with a stile and small threds, in the middle of a Saffron colour.

1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 75 The figure of the Style and Seed-vessel.

1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. vi. vi. 335 From the centre of the flower rises a style of a triangular form, and obtuse at the end.

1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) i. i. 9 In many plants the stalk of the stigma is of considerable length,..whether long or short, however, it is called a style.

9. Entomology.

a. A slender bristle-like process in the anal region.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > abdomen > bristle in anal region

style1826

1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiii. 392 Styli (the Styles). Rigid, exarticulate, long and narrow anal organs. Ex. Staphylinus.

1895 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. i. 238 The ninth pair [of abdominal appendages]..form the ventral styles.

b. The bristle or seta of the antenna of a dipter.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > member of > parts of > bristle of antenna

style1895

1895 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. ii. 442 The part of the antenna beyond the scape is called the ‘flagellum’; an appendage of the flagellum is called ‘arista’ when bristle-like, when thicker ‘style’.

10. Zoology.

a. A small slender pointed process or part; a stylet.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > slender or pointed part

startc1400

pointel1613

cornicle1646

stylet1834

style1851

stylus1856

1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 67 Octopodidæ... Shell represented by two short styles, encysted in the substance of the mantle.

1875 T. H. Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 762/1 There are five digits in the manus of the Anura; but the pollex is rudimentary, being represented only by a cartilaginous or more or less ossified style.

1876 Huxley in Nature 11 May 34/2 A horse-like animal..with three toes,..but having, in addition, a little style of bone on the outer side of the fore foot.

b. A sponge-spicule pointed at one end.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > parts of > sponge spicule > style

style1879

1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist on ‘Challenger’ xx. 530 The ‘style,’ a rod of the calcareous skeleton, which in many genera of Stylasteridæ acts as a support to the mouth-bearing polyp within its pore.

1888 W. J. Sollas in Rep. Sci. Results Voy. H.M.S. Challenger: Zool. XXV. p. lviii When the single actine is strongylate at the origin and oxeate at the termination the term style is used without qualification.

11. A post, stake. nonce-use.

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the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [noun] > vertical object or part > pole or stake

postOE

standard1439

style1579

stumpc1660

1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued vii. sig. G2 Entending..to..seuer places by themselues, with styles and parting stakes.

1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. iii. 222 When as..a round stone is put into the sling, foure lustie young men..unfolding the barres whereto the ropes are incorporate, draw backe the style [L. stilum] or standard up to the hooke.

II. Writing; manner of writing (hence also of speaking).

†12.

a. A written work or works; literary composition; in later use occasionally a composition spoken or sung. Obsolete.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun]

i-writeOE

bookOE

writOE

workOE

pagine?c1225

lettrurec1330

dite1340

inditing1340

writing1340

scripta1350

dittya1387

stylea1400

scriptiona1425

framec1475

invention1484

piece1533

ditement1556

paperwork1577

composition1603

confection1605

composure?1606

page?1606

the written word1619

performance1665

literature1852

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21293 Þe stile o matheu, water it was, And win þe letter o lucas.

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 87 As seynt Jerom rehersithe in his style.

1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 186 Noucht thou, Omer, als fair as thou coud wryte, For all thine ornate stilis so perfyte.

1568 Ballad against Evil Women in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 33 And sen thir clarkis awld wret in to thair stylis to ȝungar folk and þair successioun.

1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue To Rdr. sig. *iiij^v Against whose opinions my whole stile and writyng is especially directed.

1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Jan. 10 Well couth he tune his pipe, and frame his stile.

1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine v. iv. 200 Addresse your eares to heare a mournfull stile!

†b. An inscription or legend. Obsolete.

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society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun]

onwritingOE

writinga1382

inwritingc1384

writa1400

scripturec1400

scriptiona1425

style?a1527

inscriptiona1552

epigram1552

inscriptor1603

inscript1611

epigraph1624

scribings1870

wording1908

?a1527 in Regulations & Establishm. Househ. Earl of Northumberland (1905) 191 And a Still on the Hede of every Quarter of the Parcellis that is provided forre.

1640 G. Sandys tr. H. Grotius Christs Passion iv. 110 The Governour intreating to take down That glorious Stile [the superscription on the Cross].

1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 502 There is a new great seal made, with this stile round it: Willielmus 3. et Maria 2 [etc.].

†c. An entry, clause, or section in a legal document. Also ? the heading or introductory formula of a will, a writ, or other document. Obsolete.

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society > law > legal document > [noun] > paragraph or clause

paragraph1552

style1576

1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 169 Without shewing for what auncient seruice,..the same Rent grew due and payable, as in the first stile or entrie is expressed.

1619 Depositions Bk. Archdeaconries Essex & Colchester 103 b Robert Wistocke..had begun to write the stile of the will, but went no farther.

a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1649 362/1 That the name of any one particular person, should not be inserted, as the style of any Common Writ.

13.

a. The manner of expression characteristic of a particular writer (hence of an orator), or of a literary group or period; a writer's mode of expression considered in regard to clearness, effectiveness, beauty, and the like. †in frankis stile (quot. c1330): in the French language.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > style of an author, period, or work

stylec1330

languagec1350

vein1522

phrase1530

idiosyncrasy1839

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Petyt MS.) (Rolls) 16705 Pers of Langtoft..On frankis stile þis storie wrote.

c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1092 Therfore petrak writeth This storie, which with heigh stile he enditeth.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 3090 After þe maner of my rude stile.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 475/2 Style, forme of indytynge, or spekynge or wrytynge, stilus.

1509 H. Watson in tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) Argt. sig. A*.i In facyle sentence and famylyer style.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxvii A letter of diffiance, bothe for the stile & the pennyng excellently endited.

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. ii, in Wks. I. 541 So shee may censure poets, and authors, and stiles, and compare 'hem.

1719–20 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman (1721) 6 Proper Words in proper Places, makes the true Definition of a Style.

1729 W. Law Serious Call vii. 96 She will sometimes read a book of Piety..if it is much commended for stile and language.

a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) I. 510 The Boston Style is a phrase, proverbially used..to denote a florid, pompous manner of writing.

1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 74 St. Gregory of Tours has no style, barely grammar.

1870 J. Ruskin Lect. Art iii. 68 No man is worth reading to form your style, who does not mean what he says.

1889 A. C. Swinburne Study of Jonson 174 The incomparable style of Mr. Ruskin.

b. Used for: A good, choice or fine style.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun]

facunda1340

rhetoricc1405

elegancy?a1475

elegance?1504

facundity1530

grace1530

festivity1542

roundness1557

concinnity1577

style1589

comptness1611

politeness1627

concinneness1655

speakingness1851

style1851

daintiness1878

yugen1921

simplex munditiis1933

1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. B3 All this is but bad English, when wilt thou come to a stile?

c. Proverbial phrase the style is the man. [Compare post-classical Latin stilus virum arguit the style proves the man (1609 or earlier), French le style est l'homme même the style is the man himself (1753).]

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society > communication > indication > [phrase] > other phrases or sayings

there is no smoke without firec1422

straw1835

the style is the man1901

the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > choice [phrase] > a choice giving a clue to character

the style is the man1901

1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) Democritus to Rdr. 7 It is most true, stylus virum arguit, our stile bewrayes vs.

1753 G. Buffon Hist. Nat. VII. p. xvii Le style est l'homme même.]

1901 G. B. Shaw Caesar & Cleopatra 208 Going to Caesar's books, and concluding that the style is the man.

1901 A. Whyte Bible Characters: Stephen to Timothy civ. 72 If the style is the man in Holy Scripture also,..we feel a very great liking for Luke.

1942 H. F. Heard Reply Paid (1943) ix. 141 Usually I don't like to have my style modified. ‘The style is the man.’

1978 Language 54 284 In describing Achilles' speech, we have also been describing his character, since ‘style is the man’.

14. In generalized sense: Those features of literary composition which belong to form and expression rather than to the substance of the thought or matter expressed. Often used for: Good or fine style.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun]

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way1612

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun]

facunda1340

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elegance?1504

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grace1530

festivity1542

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concinnity1577

style1589

comptness1611

politeness1627

concinneness1655

speakingness1851

style1851

daintiness1878

yugen1921

simplex munditiis1933

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. Ep. Ded. I neuer made any choise of stile, or picked wordes.

?c1622 E. Bolton Hypercritica (1722) iv. §1 Language and Style, the Coat and Apparel of matter.

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 7. 46 The Rules of Method, and the Propriety of Thought and Stile.

1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1442 Style is the dress of thoughts.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 331 Some cultivated rhetoric with such assiduity and success that their discourses are still justly valued as models of style.

1851 T. De Quincey On Present State Eng. Lang. in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 6 100/2 It is certain that style, or..the management of language..is able..to yield a separate intellectual pleasure quite apart from the interest of the subject treated.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 121 The Parmenides in point of style is one of the best of the Platonic writings.

15. A manner of discourse, or tone of speaking, adopted in addressing others or in ordinary conversation.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > tone

keya1530

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1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 77 Stop vp thine eares this Syren to beguile,..be sure To lend no eare vnto hir flattring stile.

1614 F. Bacon Charge touching Duels 28 No man tooke himselfe fowled by them [sc. reproaches], but tooke them but for breath, and the stile of an enemy.

1668 S. Pepys Diary 23 Feb. (1976) IX. 88 But here talking, he did discourse in this style—‘Wee’, and ‘Wee’ all along, ‘will not give any money’ [etc.].

1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 32 This hath been the Style of late Years; which whoever introduced among us, they have taught our Allies to speak after them.

1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. 362 When Threats moved him very little, some others of them changed their Stile, and calmly asked him, What is the Reason you will not comply as your elder Brother hath done.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1768 I. 304 He talked in his usual style with a rough contempt of popular liberty.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 130 To a new Style his Reverence rashly took; Loud grew his Voice, to Threat'ning swell'd his Look.

1832 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) II. 289 Able as he is, he has adopted a tone and style..unusual on the Episcopal bench.

1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 5 The Athenian talks to the two others..in the style of a master discoursing to his scholars.

†16. A form of words, phrase, or formula, by which a particular idea or thought is expressed.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > mode of expression

manner of speakinga1387

termsc1400

parlancec1475

locution1483

diction1563

couching1571

dictamenta1572

dialect1579

style1594

phraseology1604

phrasing1611

expression1628

language1643

wording1649

routine1676

mode1779

verbiage1792

parle1793

verbiagerie1817

vocabulation1859

phraseography1899

lexis1950

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 571 Neuerthelesse wee meane according to the stile [Fr. stile] of the holy scriptures, that hee [etc.].

1642 D. Rogers Naaman 589 To use Saint Iames his stile..saying, If God will blesse it, it shall heale.

1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. viii. 60 Every sinner in the stile of Scripture is a fool.

1653 T. Watson Αυταρκεια vii. 41 Ipse dixit was enough among Pythagoras his Scholars. Be it enacted, is the Royal stile.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 4 In the stile of the Court he [James I.] went for Great Britain's Solomon.

1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes i. 9 The Stile and Phrase of the Text plainly speaks of it as such.

1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 64 The eastern Stile would be literally applicable to him, that all People, Nations, and Languages should serve him.

17.

a. Scots Law. The authorized form for drawing up a deed or instrument.

ΚΠ

1490 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 600 In þe sikkyrast forme & styill of obligatioune wsyt..within the Realme.

?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1153 in Poems (1981) 47 For by the vse and cours and commoun style, On this maner maid his citatioun.

1585 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 377/2 That euerie writtair subscribe his name on þe bak of þe signatour or lettre as allowit be him That it is writtin according to þe ordiner stile and forme.

1697 G. Dallas (title) System of Stiles, as now Practicable within the Kingdom of Scotland.

1708 J. Spottiswoode Introd. Stile of Writs (1727) 28 When the Bond of Provision is made by a Father, in favours of his whole Children, the Stile is thus. I A. for the paternal Love and fatherly Affection that I have and bear to B, C, &c. my lawful Children, by these Presents [etc.].

1862 Hendry (title) Styles of Deeds and Instruments..Second Edition.

b. In generalized sense: Legal technicality of language or construction; as in words or clauses of style. [With clauses of style compare French clause of style (1765).]

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > legal technicality of language

style1765

1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iii. 11. §1 Their verborum obligatio, to the forming of which it behoved both parties to utter certain verba solennia, or words of style.

1766 Ld. Kames Remarkable Decisions Court of Session 1730–52 75 The extent of the obligation is to be gathered from the nature of the transaction, rather than from clauses of style slightly or imperfectly framed.

1912 J. S. Black & G. Chrystal Life W. R. Smith vi. 237 Libels were drawn up in the old ratiocinative form, bristling with words of style and verbosities of all kinds.

18.

a. A legal, official, or honorific title; the proper name or recognized appellation of a person, family, trading firm, etc.; the ceremonial designation of a sovereign, including his various titles and the enumeration of his dominions.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > [noun]

nameeOE

dignityc1290

titlea1398

stylea1400

addition1472

a handle to one's name1822

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16082 He es na godd ne godds sun, of him we knau þe stile.

c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 2832 He þat noble is of blode, and a lorde In stile.

1414 Dede is worchyng 115 in 26 Pol. Poems 59 To ffraunce kyng Edwarde had queryle, Hit was his kynde heritage; And ȝe han þe same style.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 211 The Rede Reffayr thai call him in his still.

1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 3 (title) The Bill for the Kinges Stile.

1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 215 The Kings Stile, is now no more of England, but of Britaine.

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. x. 126 King Richard with some of his succeeding English Kings wore the title of Jerusalem in their style.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 312 Or these Titles now Must we renounce, and changing stile be call'd Princes of Hell?

1758 Payne's Universal Chron. 29 July–5 Aug. 141/1 A Grant..of the dignity of an Earl of the said kingdom, by the name, stile and title of Earl of Wandesford, in the county of Kilkenny.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 232 Articles of Confederation..in which they took the style of ‘The United States of America.’

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 667 The title of king of France, assumed by the conqueror of Cressy, was not omitted in the royal style.

1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. viii. 715 Conferring the whole Admiralty jurisdiction..on one person, under the style of High Admiral.

1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. Pref. p. xiv My native modesty is such, that I have always been shy of assuming the honourable style of Professor.

1886 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 18 Dec. 198/1 The covenant was..that he would not use a particular name or style in trade.

1913 Times 13 Sept. 17/6 Partnerships Dissolved... P. Lawford and P. W. Billing,..under the style of A. S. Wilson and Co.

b. gen. Any distinguishing or qualifying title, appellation, or denomination. Now rare or Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun]

nameeOE

wordeOE

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titlec1390

notea1393

stylec1400

calling?a1425

nomination?a1425

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denomination?a1475

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nomenclature1610

expressiona1631

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cognomen1852

tally1929

denotative1944

anthroponym1952

c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xx. 67 And eke of moder hast thou lost the style.

1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 209 Wallace..callit Corspatrik tratour, be his style.

a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. B The name of father, and the style of friend.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G4^v The one carrying the stile of a Manufacture, and the other of a lawe, decree, or Councell.

1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. K4 A ruffler is my stile, my title, my profession.

1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 2nd Pt. i. sig. C2^v T' impose on me The hatefull stile and blot of pandarisme, That am a Gentleman.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 10 Their soberest adversaries have ever afforded them the stile of fooles and mad men.

1673 W. Penn Christian-Quaker vii, in Wks. (1726) I. 542 Which excellent Principles..do worthily deserve, in my Esteem, the Stile of Divinity.

1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 30 The Style of Maritime Powers, by which our Allies, in a sort of contemptuous manner, usually couple us with the Dutch.

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 44 Christian is the highest Style of Man.

III. Manner, fashion.

†19.

a. A method or custom of performing actions or functions, esp. one sanctioned by usage or law. style of court: see quot. 1726. Obsolete. [Compare post-classical Latin stilus curiae (1330; from 15th cent. in British sources), Middle French stile de la court (late 14th cent.).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice

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wonec1200

moursc1250

usec1384

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frequentation1525

ordinary1526

trade?1543

vein1549

habit1581

rut1581

habitude1603

mores1648

tread1817

dastur1888

society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group

i-wunec888

thewc893

wise971

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orderc1300

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usagec1330

usea1393

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spacec1400

stylec1430

rite1467

fashion1490

frequentation1525

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tradition1597

mode1642

shibboleth1804

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praxis1892

c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxxi. 152 But whan j wole, þe style j haue, and hippe a while bi lesinges and lyinge.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 276/1 Style a processe, stile.

1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 10 Tua legatis he hes send..To execute the law in Romane stylis.

1549 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 434 Togyddyr with seruice in ostijng and vthir generall raidis furneist þairto efter þe forme and styill of þe schyir.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 11 According to the Style of that Court, and the slow progress in all things of Ceremony.

1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) I. i. 145 He did an act against the custom and common style of the Court.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 193 The Style of Court is properly the Practice observ'd by any Court in its way of Proceeding.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 22 I like to give them a hearty reception in the old stile at my gate.

†b. A particular manner of life or behaviour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > mode or manner of behaviour or conduct > a particular

stylec1412

grace1607

daddyism1892

c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 4024 Allas! Þat Kynges nobleye Turne schulde into style of tirannye!

c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 4516 [addressing a miser] Thus may thy style likned be to thefte.

†c. ? Outward demeanour. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > demeanour or bearing

i-bereOE

i-letelOE

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1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ii. sig. B7 Ne certes can that friendship long endure, How euer gay and goodly be the style, That doth ill cause or euill end enure.

†20. Condition with regard to external circumstances. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] > state of affairs or situation

thingeOE

stallc1000

estrec1300

farea1325

arrayc1386

casea1393

costa1400

state of thingsa1500

style?a1505

predicament1586

facta1617

posture1620

picture1661

situation1750

position1829

lie1850

posish1859

state of play1916

the form1934

score1938

sitch1954

a1505 R. Henryson Robene & Makyne 57 in Poems (1981) 177 Robene, I stand in sic a styll [rhymes quhyle, begyle]; I sicht, and that full sair.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 658 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 115 The stern empriouris style yus staitly restord Is.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 709 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 117 Quhar sic statis will steire yair stylis till ostend Ȝe wait all worschip and welth dayly Induris.

21.

a. A particular mode or form of skilled construction, execution, or production; the manner in which a work of art is executed, regarded as characteristic of the individual artist, or of his time and place; one of the modes recognized in a particular art as suitable for the production of beautiful or skilful work.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style

gusto1662

composition1695

style1706

expression1715

goût1717

handling1719

touching1743

conduct1758

rhetoric1851

treatment1856

1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 69 When a curious Person has well consider'd the different Pictures of a Master, and has form'd a perfect Idea of his Stile [Fr. de la maniére].

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Style, in Music, the manner of Singing and Composing... Thus we say, the Style of the Charissimi, of Lully, of Lambert; the Style of the Italians, the French, the Spaniards, &c.

1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. iii. i. 61 On Columns, rais'd in modern Style.

1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xii. 210 It [Modern Church Music] is infected with the same Puerility of Stile, with their Opera Airs.

1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vii. 286 The hardest Egyptian stile, stiff and imperfect as it was, is more elegant [than that of Mexican painting].

1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. ii. 69 Michael Angelo lived to see the electric shock which his design and style had given to art.

1812 G. Crabbe Tales v. 97 The shining tables, curiously inlaid, Were all in comfortless proud style display'd.

1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 84 At Lausanne we only stopped for dinner (which we obtained in sufficiently bad style at the Lion d'Or).

1858 F. C. Hingeston in Chron. J. Capgrave Introd. p. xxvi The style of the writing corresponds very closely with that of those MSS. of Capgrave which are known..to have been written by his own hand.

1865 Nat. Hist. Rev. 338 The ‘style’ in which the book has been produced is excellent.

1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 28/1 British manufacturers are building [fishing-] rods after the American style.

b. In generalized sense. Often used for: Beauty or loftiness of style.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style > types of

grotesque1561

charging1569

gusto1662

grand manner1695

manner1706

flatnessa1719

style1801

low key1803

mannerism1803

daguerreotype1850

chic1851

conventionalization1880

Louis Philippe1908

stylization1908

convention1926

historicism1939

pop1958

1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. ii. 60 The few nudities which he [Fra Bartolomeo] allowed himself to exhibit, shew sufficient intelligence and still more style.

c. A definite type of architecture, distinguished by special characteristics of structure or ornamentation. Often with prefixed designation, as the Grecian style, Gothic style, Italian style, Romanesque style; the Norman style, Early English style, Decorated style, Perpendicular style, Tudor style, Renaissance style, Palladian style; and the like.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun]

architecturea1701

style1777

Populuxe1986

1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal cxxxiii A very handsome church..in the Gothic stile.

1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 46 The first or Norman style.

1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 56 The Second, or Early English Style.

1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 71 The Third, or Decorated English Style.

1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 157 The beauties or defects of either the Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, or Gothic style.

1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 251 A man can no more invent a new style than he can invent a new language.

a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 6 Each age had its architectural style distinctly and strongly marked.

d. Printing. The rules and methods, in regard to typography, display, etc., observed in a particular printing-office.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > record and reference books > [noun] > style sheet

style1871

style manual1922

style sheet1924

1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 451/2 It is highly important for a compositor to thoroughly familiarize himself with the style of the office in which he is employed, as well as the style adopted for any special work.

1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 451/2 After a compositor has been at an office for years, where, habituated to the style of the house, he sets up words in type as follows.

1894 Amer. Dict. Printing, etc. 530 Most printing-offices have their own particular method in the matter of display, spelling, &c., and this is known as the style of the house.

e. Calico printing. (a) See quot. 1844. (b) Any of the various methods in use for producing the coloured design.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > disposition of colours

style1844

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > techniques

ageing1830

grounding-in1839

style1874

1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. ii. 58 Among calico-printers the term pattern is applied to disposition of forms, while style is applied to disposition of colours.

1874 W. Crookes Pract. Handbk. Dyeing 566 The madder styles have for a long time played the most important part in calico-printing.

1892 J. T. Arlidge Hygiene of Occupations 523 The art of dyeing is one characterised by very diverse methods, or, as they are called, ‘styles’.

22.

a. A kind, sort, or type, as determined by manner of composition or construction, or by outward appearance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class

kinc950

kindOE

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rowc1300

spece1303

spice1303

fashionc1325

espicec1386

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race1590

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tap1623

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genus1666

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description1776

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classification1803

subcategory1842

type1854

basket1916

1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vii. 201 Of the latter style of countenance..were those of the peasant and his wife.

1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. xi. 214 There was something in her stile of beauty, to please them [i.e. men] particularly.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 110 The former [murderer]..exhibiting a style of head and set of features which would have afforded sufficient moral grounds for his instant execution at any time.

1849 N. Brit. Rev. 11 479 Emilia Wyndham is a complete example of the style of novel in which Mrs. Marsh is qualified to succeed.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 659 The ‘style’ of the symptoms, as I am in the habit of calling it.

b. transferred. Said predicatively of a person or thing: What suits (a person's) taste; the ‘sort’ that (a person or set of persons) would choose or approve.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > fact of being to one's taste > that which is to one's taste

mark1760

style1811

one's dish1918

1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. xxi. 358 Had he continued to live en garçon, his own chariot, little less weighty than a farmer's loaded waggon, with gilt springs..would have been his style.

1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 145 She is not the style of the day at all, you know.

†c. in a..style. (a) Of a (specified) kind; (made) on a certain scale. (b) In a (good or bad) condition as regards health, mode of life, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > [adjective] > relating to state of health

likingc1390

in a‥style1772

the world > relative properties > kind or sort > in respect of kind [phrase] > as opposed to individually

of a (certain) sortc1380

of (also in) (a certain) naturec1390

in specie1562

in a‥style1772

1772 Test Filial Duty II. 24 Every thing here is in a great stile; I shall hence forward look on the middle part of England as the miniature of nature.

1789 C. Smith Ethelinde II. xi. 269 By all accounts he's in a bad style. He was always, I thought, a giddy unpromising boy.

1789 C. Smith Ethelinde III. i. 5 Nor should I have thrown away a thought on this [lady], had not she had the reputation of an understanding in a superior style.

1789 C. Smith Ethelinde III. xi. 264 My horses are all in a fine style.

23.

a. Manner of executing a task or performing an action or operation. Often with reference to athletics, racing, games: The manner of action of a particular performer, racehorse, etc. Also gen., one's characteristic manner of acting or reacting. to cramp one's style: see cramp v. 5c.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > [noun] > specifically of a person or animal

style1775

modus operandi1894

society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [noun] > style

style1833

the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > habitual or characteristic

i-cundeeOE

manner?c1225

usagea1400

way1563

style1937

1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 34 To repeal by a denial of our right to tax in the preamble..would have cut, in the heroic style, the Gordian knot with a sword.

1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 157 The bold adventurer ascended from Belvidere Grounds, Dublin,..and in a gradual and majestic style left the shores of Ireland.

1819 in London Gaz. (1820) No. 17629. 1670/1 That the service entrusted to him has been executed in a stile most creditable to the professional skill of the Major-General himself.

1833 H. Martineau Tale of Tyne i. 11 A barge was coming up in fine style.

1833 Q. Rev. 49 382 The style in which he [a horse] ran, his nose almost sweeping the ground.

1879 R. A. Proctor Rough Ways (1880) 159 They row in a style, which without being actually identical with that of the London waterman, resembles it in all essential respects.

1879 Oxf. & Cambr. Undergraduate Jrnl. 13 Mar. 291/2 If his staying powers can be trusted he is perhaps the best man in the boat, his style being very good.

1891 B. Harte First Family Tasajara x It was like you to..say all those mean, silly things to dad,..in your regular looney style.

1937 C. Odets Golden Boy i. iii. 47 Joe knows his own needs, as he says. Don't ask him to change his style.

1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 247 It hadn't been his original intention to make her suffer, but he couldn't alter his style.

1978 S. Brill Teamsters vi. 260 Lying low just isn't his style.

b. Used absol. for: Good or fine style.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > manner of action > [noun] > specific manner of action or operation > good

style1864

1864 Times 21 Mar. 9/6 Mr. Hawkshaw, in speaking for the Cambridge crew, said they had been beaten by style.

24.

a. A mode of deportment or behaviour; a mode or fashion of life, esp. in regard to expense, display, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > mode or manner of behaviour or conduct

rate1517

pass1555

forma1616

style1770

pose1892

1770 C. Jenner Placid Man I. iii. iv. 163 He found Lady Clayton in a very high stile of passion.

a1775 Hobie Noble xv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 3 Then Hobie Noble is that deer; I wat he carries the style fu hie!

1780 New Newgate Cal. V. 161 Living in the stile of a gentleman.

1788 A. Hughes Henry & Isabella III. 66 An opportunity of marrying in such a manner as would enable her to live in a certain style, among a certain class.

1792 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 374 The society is noisy and in bad style.

a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 117 Between the expensive style of Paris and of Italy it was prudent to interpose some months of tranquil simplicity.

1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 14 [He] had already brought home an immense fortune from the East, and was now to return in a high style.

1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv. 192 That gentleman..lived in what is called great style .

1816 Brief Remarks Eng. Manners 87 I was convinced by their style that any overture on my part would be deemed an intrusion.

1825 C. Lamb Lepus Papers v, in Wks. (1903) I. 278 What a style you do live in! what elegant curtains!

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xv. 279 I began the process of ruining myself in the received style; like any other spoonie.

1885 ‘E. Garrett’ At Any Cost xiii. 246 I don't say your Miss Chrissie did anything in that style, but she lost her place here through her carryings on.

1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 270 So we left in great style, with bands playing and soldiers presenting arms.

b. Used absol. for: Fashionable air, appearance, deportment, etc. Also, more generally, attractive or impressive quality; originality.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun]

fashionableness1640

à-la-modeness1669

modishness1676

à la modality1753

tonishness1780

style1807

stylishnessa1817

fashionability1840

swellishness1863

hep1899

hipness1937

coolness1951

hip1956

cool1962

hipdom1962

with-it-ness1963

funkiness1974

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > attractive or impressive quality > [noun]

accomplishment1586

chic1851

style1967

1807 Salmagundi 18 Apr. 154 Style..consists in certain fashions, or certain eccentricities, or certain manners, of certain people, in certain situations, and possessed of a certain share of fashion or importance.

1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. xxv. 175 A plain German city, with little or no pretensions to style.

1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xxvi. 233 An evident wish to throw a little style into their costume.

1885 W. D. Howells Indian Summer (1886) ii. 16 The refined and indefinite perfume which exhaled from the ensemble of her silks, her laces, and her gloves, like an odorous version of that otherwise impalpable quality which women call style.

1967 Trans-action Apr. 11/1 Style is difficult to define as it has so many referents. It means to carry one's self well, dress well, to show class... A person with style must also show respect..for another's superior power.

1968 Listener 13 June 761/3 Jack, the prime Kennedy,..had a quality which practically everybody recognised as ‘style’.

1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) ii. xi. 288 How much more dignified it would have been if Rusty could have trusted her... But Rusty had never had style.

c. in style: splendidly, showily, according to fashionable requirements. Also †in a style.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > in fashion [phrase]

in, out of (the) fashion1603

à la mode1637

in a style1781

up to the minute1909

1781 in W. Blane Ess. on Hunting 31 All other kind of Hounds are now entirely laid aside by those who affect to hunt in style.

1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iv. vi. 202 We began with Cotillons, and finished with country dances. It was the most elegant thing you ever saw in your life; everything quite in a style.

1807 Sporting Mag. 29 23 Every gentleman who perambulates Bond-street and the Steyne in style.

1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 289 The driver..—no doubt that you may do the thing in style—turns a deaf ear to your earnest entreaties to be set down at the corner.

1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. 39 This is what the modern British public thinks is ‘living in style’.

d. transferred. Attractive quality (in a thing).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive quality or feature

lust1390

jollity1484

allure1534

Venus1540

attract1593

attraction1599

attractive1607

gold dust1690

charm1697

charmingness1727

take1794

charmfulness1842

style1897

appeal1916

pull factor1938

1897 Daily News 18 Mar. 8/7 They found that the beer had ‘more style,’ as it was called, when there was a certain admixture of foreign barley.

25. A particular mode or fashion of costume.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun]

wearing?c1225

guisec1275

attire1382

habita1420

shapea1425

trick1542

fashion1544

trim1579

suit shape1598

garb1608

form1664

toilet1752

macaroni dressa1777

turn-out1812

style1814

set-out1834

get-up1842

rig1843

feather1854

model1859

make-up1883

1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. vi. 121 A better style of dress.

1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) viii His daughters look very well in their better style of dress.

1860 Draper & Clothier I. 129/1 The dress is of the style called in Paris, the robe Impératrice.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xvi. 34 Got up, both inside and out, as candidates in the style of the period.

1891 Truth 10 Dec. 1240/2 The front was all white satin, made in Empire style.

26. A person's characteristic bearing, demeanour, or manner, esp. as conducing to beauty or striking appearance.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > demeanour or bearing > especially as striking in appearance

presence1570

style1827

1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. xv. 317 Most amusing, delightful girl—great style!

1861 Mrs. H. Wood Shadow of Ashlydyat i. ii I do not see much beauty in Charlotte Pain. I do not like her style.

1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks vi. 68 There are some very homely women who have a style that amounts to something like beauty.

1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iv. 21 Mr. Sapsea is very proud of this, and of his voice, and of his style.

IV. With reference to dating systems.

27.

a. A mode of expressing dates. Chiefly, Either of the two methods of dating that have been current in the Christian world since the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582: viz., the New Style (abbreviated N.S.), which is the result of the Gregorian reform, and the Old Style (O.S.) which follows the unreformed calendar. The New Style is occasionally called the Roman Style, and the Old Style the English Style. In historical dates earlier than 1582, however, Roman Style, as used by modern writers, means only that the year mentioned is to be understood as beginning on 1 January.The Julian calendar was based on the assumption that the tropical year consisted of 365¼ days. In order that the average calendar year should have this length, it was provided that the normal year should contain 365 days, but every fourth year 366 days. Down to a.d. 1582 the Julian calendar continued to be used by all Christian nations. In calendars and almanacs, the year began on 1 January (like the Roman consular year); but for ordinary purposes the time of beginning the year was different in different places; in England, after some fluctuations, the beginning of the legal year was fixed for 25 March. After the adoption of the Christian era, the leap years were those whose number a.d.(reckoned from 1 January) was divisible by 4.The Julian estimate of 365¼ days for the length of the tropical year was too great by about 11 minutes, an error which amounts to one day in about 128 years. Hence in 1581 the date of 21 March for the vernal equinox, assumed since the early 4th cent. in the rule for computing Easter, was 10 days too late. To remedy this inconvenience, and to prevent its recurrence, Pope Gregory XIII, acting on the advice of the Jesuit Clavius and other eminent astronomers, ordained that in a.d. 1582 the day after 4 October should be reckoned as 15 October, and that in future the years which had a number ending in two cyphers should not be leap years unless the number were divisible by 400. The Julian date of 1 January for the beginning of the year was retained. The difference between the old and new calendars continued to be 10 days until 1700 (the first disputed leap-year), when it became 11 days; in 1800 it became 12 days, and in 1900 13 days, from which there will be no further increase till 2100.The Gregorian calendar (so called from the name of the Pope) was speedily adopted in all Roman Catholic countries, while the other nations of Europe adhered to their traditional reckoning. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was often found necessary to state whether a date was according to Old or New Style, or to give both datings. As the nations which accepted the reform usually began the year on 1 Jan., not, as in England, on 25 March, there was for the March quarter (in addition to the other difference) a discrepancy in the number of the year between the Old Style and New Style dates.In England and Scotland the Gregorian calendar was established by the Act 24 Geo. II. c. 23 (1751), which provided that the year 1752 and all future years should begin on 1 January instead of 25 March (in Scotland this rule had been adopted in 1600), that the day after 2 September 1752 should be reckoned the 14 September, and that the reformed rule for leap year should in future be followed. Ireland followed in 1788. The use of New Style is now universal throughout the Christian world with the exception of certain countries of the Greek Church; in Russia it was officially adopted by the revolutionary government in 1918. In France the expression New Style had been current before the time of the Gregorian reform, with reference to the change in the beginning of the year from Easter to 1 January, which took place in that country in 1563. [With New Style compare post-classical Latin stilus novus (1589 in a British source), French nouveau style method of fixing the beginning of the year following the reform of 1582 (1588 or earlier), method of counting days according to the revolutionary calendar (1802). With Old Style compare French ancien style (1610 or earlier), vieux style (1615 or earlier). With Roman Style compare Middle French stile romaine, with reference to an earlier type of chronology, distinguished from stile françois French style (1334).]

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > old style or new style

English Style1590

Julian account1592

new style1615

old style1617

N.S.1698

O.S.1710

1589 J. Dee Private Diary (1842) 31 Aug. 5th, novo stylo, Edmond Hilton went toward Stade.]

1590 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 239 Written the xxv of September, 1590, style of England.

1615 Cocks Diary 18 June (1883) I. 11 I receved a letter from Jorge Durois, dated in Langasaque, le 22nd of June, new stile.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 63 The ninth of September, after the old stile (for the new style is vsed in Poland) I tooke my iourney to Crakaw.

1625 in S. R. Gardiner Documents Impeachm. Duke of Buckingham (1889) 160 The eight and twentieth day of this presente moneth of March, Old Stile of England.

1664 R. Fanshawe Let. in Lady Fanshawe Mem. (1829) 329 Madrid, Wednesday, the 15th June, 1664, English Style.

1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) ii. 84 I look in the Calender of Old Stile for June 1.

1678 Trial of Coleman 28 In the month of April old stile, May new stile.

1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 395. ¶3 Telling me she looked upon the Month as then out, for that she had all along reckoned by the New Style.

1716 Mar Jrnl. in Patten Hist. Rebell. (1717) 269 It was about the middle of December (our Style) before he could reach Dunkirk.

1753 in W. W. Wilkins Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 311 In seventeen hundred and fifty three The Style it was chang'd to Popery.

1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 35 Russia is..the only country in which bills are dated by the Old Style.

1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries vi. 137 At the time of altering the Style, in 1752.

1862 L. F. Simpson Autob. Chas. V p. v Where he was born on February 24, 1500, according to Roman Style.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxii. 387 The 9th of August, old style [i.e. according to the pre-Julian reckoning], or towards the end of May by real time, Cæsar had [etc.].

b. transferred (in nonce-uses).

ΚΠ

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. ii. 207 Then they parted to dress, it being now past three in the Morning, or to reckon by the old Style, in the Afternoon.

1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 80 By which manner of computation he was but fifty in his style, and sixty in that of all others.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

style-like adj.

ΚΠ

1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 72 A round, lamellated star, with a projecting style-like axis in the centre.

1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 11/2 Urocentrum..is furnished posteriorly with a sharp style-like process.

b. (In sense 8.)

style-flag n.

ΚΠ

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1816) I. ix. 295 The petal-like expansion or style-flag [in Iris].

style-flap n.

ΚΠ

1907 G. F. S. Elliot Romance Plant Life 197 In Mimulus the style-flaps close when touched.

c. (In sense 21d.)

style manual n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > record and reference books > [noun] > style sheet

style1871

style manual1922

style sheet1924

1922 (title) Style manual of the Government printing office (U.S. Govt. Printing Office).

1964 E. D. Seeber (title) A style manual for students.

style sheet n.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > printing > record and reference books > [noun] > style sheet

style1871

style manual1922

style sheet1924

1924 H. L. Mencken Let. 7 Dec. (1961) 272 Have you such a thing as a Style Sheet for The Atlantic?

1982 R. Quirk Style & Communication in Eng. Lang. i. 16 This is not, of course, to say that the existence of the ‘style sheet’ mentality is always advantageous.

C2.

style analysis n. analysis of the characteristic style of an artist, writer, composer, etc., or of a school or period, on the basis of which attribution of a particular work can be made.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > critical analysis

analysis1580

autopsy1879

style analysis1927

close reading1932

1927 E. Rickert New Methods for Study of Lit. Index 274/2 Subjectivity in style analysis.

1953 M. Schapiro in A. Kroeber Anthropol. Today 290/1 The refinement of style analysis has come about..through problems in which small differences had to be..described precisely.

1955 H. Read Icon & Idea vi. 112 Then are many other factors which can be used in style analysis..but though all these stylistic traits build up to an index of the painter's personality, they do not..indicate the painter's awareness of a self.

1969–70 Computers & Humanities IV. 41 These results, minor as they are, are of a nature that has not been achieved in any other use of the computer for style analysis in music.

1973 Black World Nov. 5/1 Conventional histories of music and style-analysis texts generally ignored the subject of the Black man's contribution to music.

style-book n. (a) a book containing ‘styles’ of writs, etc., according to Scots law (see 17); (b) originally U.S., a book containing the methods and regulations observed in a particular printing-office (W. 1911) .

ΘΚΠ

society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > book treating of law > type of book or spec. book

style-book1708

white book1965

1708 J. Spottiswoode Introd. Stile of Writs Pref. (1727) a 6 b I have thought fit to communicate the Scheme of a Stile-book, form'd by James Hay of Carribber for the Use of the Gentlemen educated in his Writing-Chamber.

1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 V. lvii. 439 The narrative of the method of the deed has a certain old quaintness that may relieve it of the stiffness of the modern-style book.

1898 (title) Stylebook of the Chicago Society of Proofreaders.

1930 N.Y. Times 7 Mar. 22/5 (heading) In our ‘style book’ ‘Negro’ is now added to the list of words to be capitalized. It is not merely a typographical change; it is an act in recognition of racial self-respect.

1981 K. Waterhouse Daily Mirror Style 5 In most newspaper offices there is to be found a manual known as the style-book which lays down..the paper's rules on the usage of words and punctuation.

style critic n. an expert in style analysis.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > types of literary criticism > exponent of

form-historian1928

form-critic1933

contextualist1936

New Critic1941

style critic1959

Barthesian1966

new historicist1971

narratologist1974

post-structuralist1974

deconstructor1978

Derridean1978

deconstructionist1982

1959 Times 26 May 13/5 On that hypothesis David stays as the author of the 75 pictures,..finally reinstated by modern style-critics.

1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 718/2 He may be the less inclined to indulge in wild or subjective speculation than the style critic.

style-setter n. someone who or something which sets the fashion.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > pioneering or breaking new ground > a pioneer

pioneer1605

outstarter1738

advance guard1759

path-breaker1843

pathfinder1847

torch-bearer1847

path-hewer1879

pacesetter1895

pacemaker1905

trail-blazer1908

style-setter1959

1959 News Chron. 1 July 3/1 I have a feeling it is going to be a style-setter.

1960 News Chron. 29 Feb. 6/7 Princess Margaret has always been a style-setter.

style-setting adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [adjective] > pioneering

pioneering1785

pioneer1845

pace-setting1902

groundbreaking1904

front line1914

style-setting1955

breakthrough1956

leading edge1977

1955 O. Keepnews & W. Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz iii. 44 Earl Hines..quickly developed into an outstanding and style-setting pianist.

1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 1 Mar. 44/2 The Fordson Dexta with its proved style-setting three cylinder Diesel engine.

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单词	style
释义	stylen. Brit. /stʌɪl/, U.S. /staɪl/ Forms: Middle English steel, Middle English stele, Middle English stiel, Middle English styele, Middle English styell, Middle English styyl, Middle English–1500s still (northern), Middle English–1800s stile, Middle English– style, 1500s–1600s steele; Scottish pre-1700 steille, pre-1700 stil, pre-1700 still, pre-1700 stille, pre-1700 styill, pre-1700 styl, pre-1700 styll, pre-1700 stylle, pre-1700 1700s stile, pre-1700 1700s– style. Origin: Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French style; Latin stilus. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French estile, stil, stile, style (French style ) manner of speaking (c1250 as estil ; c1393 as stille ), manner of behaving (c1290 in Old French as estile ; c1350 as stile ), manner of writing (early 14th cent. as estile ; 1372 as stile ), mode of dating (1334 as stile ), title, mode of address (1340 as estile ), legal regulation, customary manner of court proceedings (1346), pointed instrument for writing (late 14th cent.), literary work (c1400), custom, usage (mid 16th cent.), form of written or spoken discourse characterized by literary or rhetorical techniques (1548), gnomon of a sundial (1562), surgical instrument (1672), manner in which a work of art is executed (1699), character of the works of writers or artists of the same country or period (1734), mode of behaviour, mode of living (1771), also (in botany) pistil, part of a pistil (1694 or earlier), (in anatomy) bony protuberance (1812), (in entomology) bristle or seta of the antenna of a dipter (1825 or earlier: see note), and their etymon (ii) classical Latin stilus (also stylus, after ancient Greek στῦλος : see note) stake or spike, stem of a plant, pointed instrument for writing, action or practice of writing, manner of speaking or writing, in post-classical Latin also literary work, (foreign) language (late 2nd cent. in Tertullian), text, passage (of a book) (late 2nd or early 3rd cent. in Tertullian), gnomon of a sundial (5th cent.), written record of a legal transaction (from 12th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources), customary manner of court proceedings, (in a list or account) heading, title (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources), custom, usage (13th cent.), official title, mode of address (from 13th cent. in British sources), surgical instrument (14th cent. in a British source), mode of dating (14th cent.), pistil (1675 or earlier), (in scientific Latin) part of the pistil (1720 or earlier), bristle-like process in the anal region (1817 or earlier), perhaps < a stem also seen in classical Latin stimulus stimulus n.Spelling variation The variant style , now the predominant spelling (as also in French) reflects the Latin variant stylus : this in turn is influenced by ancient Greek στῦλος column (see styloid adj.), and the view that this was the source of these words. Specific senses Modern dictionaries of French ( Trésor de la langue française and Französisches etymol. Wörterbuch) treat French style in senses 8, 9, 10 as deriving from ancient Greek στῦλος, but in fact the Greek word does not have any comparable senses, and Latin stilus is used for a plant stem already in classical Latin. In entomology and zoology, style is used to denote various small, pointed entities (compare senses 9, 10): these uses would seem to derive more naturally from Latin stilus spike, pointed instrument, than from Greek στῦλος pillar, column. Parallels in other European languages Compare Old Occitan estilh (c1350), stilh (1419), Italian stilo, stile (14th cent.), Spanish estilo (15th cent.), Portuguese estilo (14th cent.), German Stil (early 15th cent.). I. Stylus, pin, stalk. 1. a. Ancient History. An instrument made of metal, bone, etc., having one end sharp-pointed for incising letters on a wax tablet, and the other flat and broad for smoothing the tablet and erasing what is written: = stylus n. 1. Also applied to similar instruments in later use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > stylus pointela1382 stylea1387 greffea1400 gad1570 pointrel1659 steel1738 stylet1753 stylus1807 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 297 Seinte Barnabe his body was founde in a den..with þe gospel of Mathew þat he hadde i-write wiþ his owne stile [L. stylo]. c1470 J. Hardyng Chron. lxiii. viii Whiche me nede not with my stile auaunce. 1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 7/2 Graphium, a writing wyer, or a steele wherewith to write or note. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis ix. 187 Then fits her trembling hands to write: One holds the wax, the style [L. ferrum] the other guides. 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 395 Liber Ceylonicus, writ with a style upon the Leaves of Trees. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Surveying A Welsh slate with a sharp stile..is more convenient at such a season, than pen, ink, and paper. 1840 T. Arnold Hist. Rome II. xxxii. 295 He had his tablets and his style in his hands, to record the votes. 1840 D. Lardner Treat. Geom. 270 To trace a curve..by the continued motion of a pencil or stile. 1864 G. Ticknor Life William Hickling Prescott x. 134 The whole apparatus is called a noctograph. When it has been adjusted..the person using it writes with an ivory style, or with a style made of some harder substance, like agate, on the upper surface of the blackened paper. 1885 R. Bridges Eros & Psyche ix. x. 108 All which he took his silver stile to write In letters large upon a waxèd board. b. Used as a weapon of offence, for stabbing, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > writing instrument as weapon style1669 1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 67 Methinks every point I direct my pen to should be the Sharp Execution of a Stile at their hearts. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. C. Gracchus in Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 892/1 They immediately killed Antyllius with long styles, said to have been made for such a purpose. 1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. xii. 246 A vague tradition, that the boys, whom the sophist taught, provoked by his severity, had stabbed him with their styles for writing. 1856 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire V. xlviii. 465 The senators fell upon the wretched man and stabbed him to death with their styles. c. figurative, or as a symbol of literary composition. ΚΠ 1579 G. Fenton in tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin Ep. Ded. Suche as for the grauitie and fidelitie of their penne and style were cherished with the greatest Princes of those dayes. 1614 C. Brooke Ghost Richard III (1844) 27 Crown'd be his stile with fame, his head with bayes. 1655 J. Denham Coopers Hill (new ed.) 7 But Princes swords are sharper then their styles. 1820 W. Hazlitt Lect. Dramatic Lit. 329 Their swords and their styles carved out their way with equal sharpness. 1827 T. Hood Ode to Melancholy 55 Where Death, with his keen-pointed style, Hath writ the common doom. †d. to turn one's style: to change to another subject; also, to speak on the other side. [Compare classical Latin stilum vertere] Similarly to address, bend, direct, dress, gye, etc. one's style. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speak [verb (intransitive)] > change to another subject to address, bend, direct, dress, gye, etc. one's stylea1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13001 Leue we him a littel quille And turn we to sant Iohn vr still. c1407 J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte 4890 To declare yt and expresse, A noon I wil my style dresse. c1410 J. Lydgate Life Our Lady lxvii. (1484) k iij That thorow thyn helpe I may my style gye Somwhat to sey of thyn epyphanye. c1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy iv. 3362 Wher, for a tyme, I wil leue him dwelle, And to Grekis..directe ageyn my stile. a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 2124 Thus leue I hym ride forth a while, whilys that I retourne ageyn my style Vnto the kyng. a1529 J. Skelton Phyllyp Sparowe (?1545) sig. Cii^v I..can not in effect My style as yet direct With englysh wordes clere. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 220 At this dewys I leif thame heir ane quhile, And to the Romanis turne I will my style. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iii. i. 333 Here let us..addresse our stile to other statutes. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. K3 But saith hee, Turne your stile, and let vs heare what you can say against vs. View more context for this quotation 1639 S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 159 This young man quite turning his stile when his Master had strayed from the right way of vertue, beganne to cry out against his inconstancy. 1650 Bp. J. Hall Revelation Unrevealed vii. 69 Reverend and holy Dionysius bent his style, in two books of the promises of God. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 146 Where, leave we Him and Ralph awhile, And to the Conjurer turn our stile. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 26 To gentle Arcite let us turn our Style. 2. An engraving-tool; a graver. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > [noun] > engraving tools pouncer1552 graving tool1591 pounce1598 puncheon1659 burin1662 eschoppe1662 graver1662 needle1662 point1662 style1662 sculpter1680 scalper1688 small chisel1749 roulette1806 engraver1821 dry-point1837 scooper1837 stylet1853 tint-tool1869 diamond-point1874 spit-sticker1909 bull-sticker1933 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura i. 7 The γλύϕιον Style, or Scalprum. 1682 J. Dryden Medall 2 The Style that copy'd every grace, And plough'd such furrows for an Eunuch face. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 706 Nor does the chissel occupy alone The pow'rs of sculpture, but the style as much. 1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. i. 10 The outlines were traced with a firm but pliant style, which they called Cestrum. †3. A pointed instrument used for marking. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > marking tools > [noun] > scoring style1659 scorer1688 ruling engine1826 scrieve1828 timber-scribe1858 1659 J. Twysden Precepts Refracted Dials 12, in S. Foster Miscellanea With some stile or dent make a mark where the point of the Gnomon is reposed through the water, upon the side of the Vessel. 4. Surgery. A blunt-pointed probe. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > surgical instruments > [noun] > probe or sound tenta1400 probe?a1425 search?a1425 sequere mea1425 searcher?c1425 searching iron1477 prove?1541 privet1598 proof1611 style1631 seeker1658 searching instrument1663 stylet1697 stiletto1699 breast-probe1739 sound1797 sounder1875 tracer1882 1631 H. Crooke Expl. Instr. Chirurg. 7 Then it will be necessary to seare the Vlcer with a Style blunt at the end, and red hot running in a hollow pype. 1846 J. Miller Pract. Surg. 98 To accomplish this, styles—or small bougies—are employed. 1895 Catal. Surg. Instruments (Arnold & Sons) 157 Style for Fistula Lachrymalis (Walton's), silver. 5. A hard point for tracing, in manifold writing; the marking-point in a telegraph or phonograph. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > point of pen > separate point > type of style1871 1871 R. S. Culley Handbk. Pract. Telegr. (ed. 5) 205 A lever carrying a point or style, which embosses a mark upon a band of paper carried forward by wheelwork. 1878 M. Foster Text Bk. Physiol. (ed. 2) iii. iii. §1. 451 A very light style attached to the incus or stapes is made to write on a travelling surface. 1881 Nature 20 Oct. 582/2 A style concentric with the shaft presses lightly against a compound sheet of tracing and carbonised paper attached to the under side of the table. 6. gen. A fixed pointer, pin, or finger for indicating a point or position. Cf. stylus n. 4. ΚΠ 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 361 We must tary vntyll the poynt or style of the clocke do exactly come to the poynt of sum houre. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. f. 207 A little round squire of brasse,..the head or stile whereof is to shewe the shadowe of the Sunne being set vpon the Globe. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica ii. iii. 76 Placing therein two stiles or needles composed of the same steele, touched with the same Loadstone, and at the same point. View more context for this quotation 1664 J. Evelyn tr. L. Alberti Statues in tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. 152 The Style is a streight Ruler, one end whereof is fixt in the center of the said Circle, the other end moves about at pleasure, so as that it may be easily transfer'd and directed from one division of the Circle to another. 7. a. The pin, rod, or triangular plate which forms the gnomon of a sun-dial. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > sundial > parts of pinOE gnomon1546 style1577 cock1585 hour-line1593 substyle1593 index1594 noon-line1596 incliner1638 substylara1652 substylar linea1652 staff1669 nodus1678 node1704 stylus1796 noon-mark1842 sun line1877 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. i. f. 96^v/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Among the Persians onelye the king dined when the sonne was at the highest, and shadowe of the stile at the shortest. 1594 T. Blundeville Exercises ii. f. 51^v That shadowe is called Vmbra versa which proceedeth from some right style or pearch being thrust into a wall or post standing right vp and not leaning. 1651 J. White Rich Cabinet 44 The Stile may be made of a thin Iron plate, and cemented in, or of a stiffe wire. 1764 J. Ferguson Lect. Select Subj. 197 The edge of the plane by which the time of the day is found, is called the stile of the dial. 1834 M. Somerville On Connexion Physical Sci. xiii. 104 The shadow of the stile of a dial. 1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. §402. 193 In practice,..all we want is a projection called a style, parallel to the earth's axis,..and a dial. b. defined as a line. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing lines > [noun] > other lines linea1382 rulec1475 stroke1567 trig1648 ductor1658 style1690 pencil line1758 guideline1785 section-line1827 subhorizon1829 broken line1937 wiggle1942 1690 W. Leybourn Cursus mathematicus f. 704 Draw the Line CF for the Axis, or Stile of your Dial. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Style, in Dyalling, is that Line whose Shadow on the Plane of the Dyal, shews the true Hour-Line. This is always supposed to be a part of the Axis of the Earth, and therefore must always be so placed, as that with its two extreme Points it shall respect the two Poles of the World, and with its Upper-end, the elevated Pole. This Line is the Upper-edge of the Cock, Gnomon, or Index. 8. Botany. A narrowed prolongation of the ovary, which, when present, supports the stigma at its apex. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > [noun] > parts of > stamen or pistil > style or pistil and related parts chire1398 chithe1398 chyde?a1500 chive1535 clapper1578 dodkin1578 pestle1597 pointel1597 umbone1633 style1682 pistillum1703 pistil1717 stylet1720 stylus1729 column1807 gynobase1830 gynaeceum1832 stylopodium1832 stylopod1849 gynostegium1880 pistillode1904 columna- 1682 S. Gilbert Florists Vade-mecum 201 The flowers..opening into five fair broad leaves, with a stile and small threds, in the middle of a Saffron colour. 1691 J. Ray Wisdom of God 75 The figure of the Style and Seed-vessel. 1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. vi. vi. 335 From the centre of the flower rises a style of a triangular form, and obtuse at the end. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) i. i. 9 In many plants the stalk of the stigma is of considerable length,..whether long or short, however, it is called a style. 9. Entomology. a. A slender bristle-like process in the anal region. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > parts of insects > [noun] > abdomen > bristle in anal region style1826 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. III. xxxiii. 392 Styli (the Styles). Rigid, exarticulate, long and narrow anal organs. Ex. Staphylinus. 1895 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. i. 238 The ninth pair [of abdominal appendages]..form the ventral styles. b. The bristle or seta of the antenna of a dipter. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Diptera or flies > [noun] > member of > parts of > bristle of antenna style1895 1895 D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. ii. 442 The part of the antenna beyond the scape is called the ‘flagellum’; an appendage of the flagellum is called ‘arista’ when bristle-like, when thicker ‘style’. 10. Zoology. a. A small slender pointed process or part; a stylet. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > [noun] > slender or pointed part startc1400 pointel1613 cornicle1646 stylet1834 style1851 stylus1856 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 67 Octopodidæ... Shell represented by two short styles, encysted in the substance of the mantle. 1875 T. H. Huxley in Encycl. Brit. I. 762/1 There are five digits in the manus of the Anura; but the pollex is rudimentary, being represented only by a cartilaginous or more or less ossified style. 1876 Huxley in Nature 11 May 34/2 A horse-like animal..with three toes,..but having, in addition, a little style of bone on the outer side of the fore foot. b. A sponge-spicule pointed at one end. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Parazoa > phylum Porifera > [noun] > member of > parts of > sponge spicule > style style1879 1879 H. N. Moseley Notes by Naturalist on ‘Challenger’ xx. 530 The ‘style,’ a rod of the calcareous skeleton, which in many genera of Stylasteridæ acts as a support to the mouth-bearing polyp within its pore. 1888 W. J. Sollas in Rep. Sci. Results Voy. H.M.S. Challenger: Zool. XXV. p. lviii When the single actine is strongylate at the origin and oxeate at the termination the term style is used without qualification. 11. A post, stake. nonce-use. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > vertical position > [noun] > vertical object or part > pole or stake postOE standard1439 style1579 stumpc1660 1579 E. Hake Newes out of Powles Churchyarde newly Renued vii. sig. G2 Entending..to..seuer places by themselues, with styles and parting stakes. 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxiii. iii. 222 When as..a round stone is put into the sling, foure lustie young men..unfolding the barres whereto the ropes are incorporate, draw backe the style [L. stilum] or standard up to the hooke. II. Writing; manner of writing (hence also of speaking). †12. a. A written work or works; literary composition; in later use occasionally a composition spoken or sung. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [noun] i-writeOE bookOE writOE workOE pagine?c1225 lettrurec1330 dite1340 inditing1340 writing1340 scripta1350 dittya1387 stylea1400 scriptiona1425 framec1475 invention1484 piece1533 ditement1556 paperwork1577 composition1603 confection1605 composure?1606 page?1606 the written word1619 performance1665 literature1852 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21293 Þe stile o matheu, water it was, And win þe letter o lucas. c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 87 As seynt Jerom rehersithe in his style. 1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 186 Noucht thou, Omer, als fair as thou coud wryte, For all thine ornate stilis so perfyte. 1568 Ballad against Evil Women in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1930) IV. 33 And sen thir clarkis awld wret in to thair stylis to ȝungar folk and þair successioun. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue To Rdr. sig. iiij^v Against whose opinions my whole stile and writyng is especially directed. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal.* Jan. 10 Well couth he tune his pipe, and frame his stile. 1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine v. iv. 200 Addresse your eares to heare a mournfull stile! †b. An inscription or legend. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [noun] onwritingOE writinga1382 inwritingc1384 writa1400 scripturec1400 scriptiona1425 style?a1527 inscriptiona1552 epigram1552 inscriptor1603 inscript1611 epigraph1624 scribings1870 wording1908 ?a1527 in Regulations & Establishm. Househ. Earl of Northumberland (1905) 191 And a Still on the Hede of every Quarter of the Parcellis that is provided forre. 1640 G. Sandys tr. H. Grotius Christs Passion iv. 110 The Governour intreating to take down That glorious Stile [the superscription on the Cross]. 1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 502 There is a new great seal made, with this stile round it: Willielmus 3. et Maria 2 [etc.]. †c. An entry, clause, or section in a legal document. Also ? the heading or introductory formula of a will, a writ, or other document. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal document > [noun] > paragraph or clause paragraph1552 style1576 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 169 Without shewing for what auncient seruice,..the same Rent grew due and payable, as in the first stile or entrie is expressed. 1619 Depositions Bk. Archdeaconries Essex & Colchester 103 b Robert Wistocke..had begun to write the stile of the will, but went no farther. a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1649 362/1 That the name of any one particular person, should not be inserted, as the style of any Common Writ. 13. a. The manner of expression characteristic of a particular writer (hence of an orator), or of a literary group or period; a writer's mode of expression considered in regard to clearness, effectiveness, beauty, and the like. †in frankis stile (quot. c1330): in the French language. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > style of an author, period, or work stylec1330 languagec1350 vein1522 phrase1530 idiosyncrasy1839 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Petyt MS.) (Rolls) 16705 Pers of Langtoft..On frankis stile þis storie wrote. c1386 G. Chaucer Clerk's Tale 1092 Therfore petrak writeth This storie, which with heigh stile he enditeth. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 3090 After þe maner of my rude stile. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 475/2 Style, forme of indytynge, or spekynge or wrytynge, stilus. 1509 H. Watson in tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) Argt. sig. A.i In facyle sentence and famylyer style. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV* f. ccxxvii A letter of diffiance, bothe for the stile & the pennyng excellently endited. 1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. ii, in Wks. I. 541 So shee may censure poets, and authors, and stiles, and compare 'hem. View more context for this quotation 1719–20 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman (1721) 6 Proper Words in proper Places, makes the true Definition of a Style. 1729 W. Law Serious Call vii. 96 She will sometimes read a book of Piety..if it is much commended for stile and language. a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1821) I. 510 The Boston Style is a phrase, proverbially used..to denote a florid, pompous manner of writing. 1845 M. Pattison in Christian Remembrancer Jan. 74 St. Gregory of Tours has no style, barely grammar. 1870 J. Ruskin Lect. Art iii. 68 No man is worth reading to form your style, who does not mean what he says. 1889 A. C. Swinburne Study of Jonson 174 The incomparable style of Mr. Ruskin. b. Used for: A good, choice or fine style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] facunda1340 rhetoricc1405 elegancy?a1475 elegance?1504 facundity1530 grace1530 festivity1542 roundness1557 concinnity1577 style1589 comptness1611 politeness1627 concinneness1655 speakingness1851 style1851 daintiness1878 yugen1921 simplex munditiis1933 1589 J. Lyly Pappe with Hatchet sig. B3 All this is but bad English, when wilt thou come to a stile? c. Proverbial phrase the style is the man. [Compare post-classical Latin stilus virum arguit the style proves the man (1609 or earlier), French le style est l'homme même the style is the man himself (1753).] ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > [phrase] > other phrases or sayings there is no smoke without firec1422 straw1835 the style is the man1901 the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > choice [phrase] > a choice giving a clue to character the style is the man1901 1624 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy (ed. 2) Democritus to Rdr. 7 It is most true, stylus virum arguit, our stile bewrayes vs. 1753 G. Buffon Hist. Nat. VII. p. xvii Le style est l'homme même.] 1901 G. B. Shaw Caesar & Cleopatra 208 Going to Caesar's books, and concluding that the style is the man. 1901 A. Whyte Bible Characters: Stephen to Timothy civ. 72 If the style is the man in Holy Scripture also,..we feel a very great liking for Luke. 1942 H. F. Heard Reply Paid (1943) ix. 141 Usually I don't like to have my style modified. ‘The style is the man.’ 1978 Language 54 284 In describing Achilles' speech, we have also been describing his character, since ‘style is the man’. 14. In generalized sense: Those features of literary composition which belong to form and expression rather than to the substance of the thought or matter expressed. Often used for: Good or fine style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] writingc1350 mannerc1375 pena1387 langue?a1400 indite1501 rate1517 conveyance?1521 composition1532 turn1533 set1535 tune1537 style1577 composure1601 way1612 language1699 rhetoricity1921 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > elegance > [noun] facunda1340 rhetoricc1405 elegancy?a1475 elegance?1504 facundity1530 grace1530 festivity1542 roundness1557 concinnity1577 style1589 comptness1611 politeness1627 concinneness1655 speakingness1851 style1851 daintiness1878 yugen1921 simplex munditiis1933 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. Ep. Ded. I neuer made any choise of stile, or picked wordes. ?c1622 E. Bolton Hypercritica (1722) iv. §1 Language and Style, the Coat and Apparel of matter. 1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 7. 46 The Rules of Method, and the Propriety of Thought and Stile. 1749 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 24 Nov. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1442 Style is the dress of thoughts. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 331 Some cultivated rhetoric with such assiduity and success that their discourses are still justly valued as models of style. 1851 T. De Quincey On Present State Eng. Lang. in Hogg's Instructor New Ser. 6 100/2 It is certain that style, or..the management of language..is able..to yield a separate intellectual pleasure quite apart from the interest of the subject treated. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 121 The Parmenides in point of style is one of the best of the Platonic writings. 15. A manner of discourse, or tone of speaking, adopted in addressing others or in ordinary conversation. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > tone keya1530 humoura1568 style1567 strain1622 tone1765 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 77 Stop vp thine eares this Syren to beguile,..be sure To lend no eare vnto hir flattring stile. 1614 F. Bacon Charge touching Duels 28 No man tooke himselfe fowled by them [sc. reproaches], but tooke them but for breath, and the stile of an enemy. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 23 Feb. (1976) IX. 88 But here talking, he did discourse in this style—‘Wee’, and ‘Wee’ all along, ‘will not give any money’ [etc.]. 1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 32 This hath been the Style of late Years; which whoever introduced among us, they have taught our Allies to speak after them. 1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. 362 When Threats moved him very little, some others of them changed their Stile, and calmly asked him, What is the Reason you will not comply as your elder Brother hath done. 1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1768 I. 304 He talked in his usual style with a rough contempt of popular liberty. 1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 130 To a new Style his Reverence rashly took; Loud grew his Voice, to Threat'ning swell'd his Look. 1832 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) II. 289 Able as he is, he has adopted a tone and style..unusual on the Episcopal bench. 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 5 The Athenian talks to the two others..in the style of a master discoursing to his scholars. †16. A form of words, phrase, or formula, by which a particular idea or thought is expressed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > mode of expression manner of speakinga1387 termsc1400 parlancec1475 locution1483 diction1563 couching1571 dictamenta1572 dialect1579 style1594 phraseology1604 phrasing1611 expression1628 language1643 wording1649 routine1676 mode1779 verbiage1792 parle1793 verbiagerie1817 vocabulation1859 phraseography1899 lexis1950 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 571 Neuerthelesse wee meane according to the stile [Fr. stile] of the holy scriptures, that hee [etc.]. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman 589 To use Saint Iames his stile..saying, If God will blesse it, it shall heale. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. viii. 60 Every sinner in the stile of Scripture is a fool. 1653 T. Watson Αυταρκεια vii. 41 Ipse dixit was enough among Pythagoras his Scholars. Be it enacted, is the Royal stile. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 4 In the stile of the Court he [James I.] went for Great Britain's Solomon. 1710 H. Prideaux Orig. & Right Tithes i. 9 The Stile and Phrase of the Text plainly speaks of it as such. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. iii. 64 The eastern Stile would be literally applicable to him, that all People, Nations, and Languages should serve him. 17. a. Scots Law. The authorized form for drawing up a deed or instrument. ΚΠ 1490 in C. Innes Liber Sancte Marie de Melros (1837) 600 In þe sikkyrast forme & styill of obligatioune wsyt..within the Realme. ?a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Sheep & Dog l. 1153 in Poems (1981) 47 For by the vse and cours and commoun style, On this maner maid his citatioun. 1585 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 377/2 That euerie writtair subscribe his name on þe bak of þe signatour or lettre as allowit be him That it is writtin according to þe ordiner stile and forme. 1697 G. Dallas (title) System of Stiles, as now Practicable within the Kingdom of Scotland. 1708 J. Spottiswoode Introd. Stile of Writs (1727) 28 When the Bond of Provision is made by a Father, in favours of his whole Children, the Stile is thus. I A. for the paternal Love and fatherly Affection that I have and bear to B, C, &c. my lawful Children, by these Presents [etc.]. 1862 Hendry (title) Styles of Deeds and Instruments..Second Edition. b. In generalized sense: Legal technicality of language or construction; as in words or clauses of style. [With clauses of style compare French clause of style (1765).] ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > register > [noun] > jargon > legal technicality of language style1765 1765–8 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. iii. 11. §1 Their verborum obligatio, to the forming of which it behoved both parties to utter certain verba solennia, or words of style. 1766 Ld. Kames Remarkable Decisions Court of Session 1730–52 75 The extent of the obligation is to be gathered from the nature of the transaction, rather than from clauses of style slightly or imperfectly framed. 1912 J. S. Black & G. Chrystal Life W. R. Smith vi. 237 Libels were drawn up in the old ratiocinative form, bristling with words of style and verbosities of all kinds. 18. a. A legal, official, or honorific title; the proper name or recognized appellation of a person, family, trading firm, etc.; the ceremonial designation of a sovereign, including his various titles and the enumeration of his dominions. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > [noun] nameeOE dignityc1290 titlea1398 stylea1400 addition1472 a handle to one's name1822 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16082 He es na godd ne godds sun, of him we knau þe stile. c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 2832 He þat noble is of blode, and a lorde In stile. 1414 Dede is worchyng 115 in 26 Pol. Poems 59 To ffraunce kyng Edwarde had queryle, Hit was his kynde heritage; And ȝe han þe same style. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 211 The Rede Reffayr thai call him in his still. 1543–4 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 3 (title) The Bill for the Kinges Stile. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 215 The Kings Stile, is now no more of England, but of Britaine. 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. x. 126 King Richard with some of his succeeding English Kings wore the title of Jerusalem in their style. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 312 Or these Titles now Must we renounce, and changing stile be call'd Princes of Hell? View more context for this quotation 1758 Payne's Universal Chron. 29 July–5 Aug. 141/1 A Grant..of the dignity of an Earl of the said kingdom, by the name, stile and title of Earl of Wandesford, in the county of Kilkenny. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 232 Articles of Confederation..in which they took the style of ‘The United States of America.’ 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 667 The title of king of France, assumed by the conqueror of Cressy, was not omitted in the royal style. 1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. iii. viii. 715 Conferring the whole Admiralty jurisdiction..on one person, under the style of High Admiral. 1865 M. Arnold Ess. Crit. Pref. p. xiv My native modesty is such, that I have always been shy of assuming the honourable style of Professor. 1886 Law Rep.: Weekly Notes 18 Dec. 198/1 The covenant was..that he would not use a particular name or style in trade. 1913 Times 13 Sept. 17/6 Partnerships Dissolved... P. Lawford and P. W. Billing,..under the style of A. S. Wilson and Co. b. gen. Any distinguishing or qualifying title, appellation, or denomination. Now rare or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > name or appellation > [noun] nameeOE wordeOE clepinga1300 namingc1300 neveningc1300 titlec1390 notea1393 stylec1400 calling?a1425 nomination?a1425 vocable1440 appellation1447 denomination?a1475 vocation1477 preface1582 prenomination1599 nomenclature1610 expressiona1631 denotation1631 appellative1632 compellation1637 denominate1638 nomenclation1638 nominance1642 titularity1643 entitlement1823 compellative1830 cognomen1852 tally1929 denotative1944 anthroponym1952 c1400 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xx. 67 And eke of moder hast thou lost the style. 1568 (a1508) W. Kennedy Flyting (Bannatyne) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 209 Wallace..callit Corspatrik tratour, be his style. a1592 R. Greene Sc. Hist. Iames IV (1598) i. sig. B The name of father, and the style of friend. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G4^v The one carrying the stile of a Manufacture, and the other of a lawe, decree, or Councell. View more context for this quotation 1611 T. Middleton & T. Dekker Roaring Girle sig. K4 A ruffler is my stile, my title, my profession. 1631 T. Heywood Fair Maid of West: 2nd Pt. i. sig. C2^v T' impose on me The hatefull stile and blot of pandarisme, That am a Gentleman. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iii. 10 Their soberest adversaries have ever afforded them the stile of fooles and mad men. View more context for this quotation 1673 W. Penn Christian-Quaker vii, in Wks. (1726) I. 542 Which excellent Principles..do worthily deserve, in my Esteem, the Stile of Divinity. 1711 J. Swift Conduct of Allies 30 The Style of Maritime Powers, by which our Allies, in a sort of contemptuous manner, usually couple us with the Dutch. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 44 Christian is the highest Style of Man. III. Manner, fashion. †19. a. A method or custom of performing actions or functions, esp. one sanctioned by usage or law. style of court: see quot. 1726. Obsolete. [Compare post-classical Latin stilus curiae (1330; from 15th cent. in British sources), Middle French stile de la court (late 14th cent.).] ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice thewc888 customa1200 wonec1200 moursc1250 usec1384 usancea1393 usagea1400 stylec1430 practice1502 commona1525 frequentation1525 ordinary1526 trade?1543 vein1549 habit1581 rut1581 habitude1603 mores1648 tread1817 dastur1888 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > customs, values, or beliefs of a society or group > [noun] > custom of a society or group i-wunec888 thewc893 wise971 law of (the) landc1175 customa1200 wonec1200 tidingc1275 orderc1300 usancea1325 usagec1330 usea1393 guisea1400 spacec1400 stylec1430 rite1467 fashion1490 frequentation1525 institution1551 tradition1597 mode1642 shibboleth1804 dastur1888 praxis1892 c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xxxi. 152 But whan j wole, þe style j haue, and hippe a while bi lesinges and lyinge. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 276/1 Style a processe, stile. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 10 Tua legatis he hes send..To execute the law in Romane stylis. 1549 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Aberdonensis (1845) I. 434 Togyddyr with seruice in ostijng and vthir generall raidis furneist þairto efter þe forme and styill of þe schyir. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 11 According to the Style of that Court, and the slow progress in all things of Ceremony. 1721 J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1822) I. i. 145 He did an act against the custom and common style of the Court. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 193 The Style of Court is properly the Practice observ'd by any Court in its way of Proceeding. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer ii. 22 I like to give them a hearty reception in the old stile at my gate. †b. A particular manner of life or behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > mode or manner of behaviour or conduct > a particular stylec1412 grace1607 daddyism1892 c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 4024 Allas! Þat Kynges nobleye Turne schulde into style of tirannye! c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 4516 [addressing a miser] Thus may thy style likned be to thefte. †c. ? Outward demeanour. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > demeanour or bearing i-bereOE i-letelOE lundc1175 semblanta1240 countenancec1290 fare1297 porturec1300 bearinga1325 portc1330 abearc1350 demeaning14.. habit1413 apporta1423 havingsa1425 maintenance?c1436 demeanc1450 maintain?1473 deport1474 maintaining1477 demeanance1486 affair1487 containing1487 behaviour1490 representation1490 haviour?1504 demeanour1509 miena1522 function1578 amenance1590 comportance1590 portance1590 purport1590 manage1593 style1596 dispose1601 deportments1603 comportment1605 garb1605 aira1616 deportment1638 comport1660 tour1702 sway1753 disport1761 maintien1814 tenue1828 portment1833 allure1841 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. ii. sig. B7 Ne certes can that friendship long endure, How euer gay and goodly be the style, That doth ill cause or euill end enure. View more context for this quotation †20. Condition with regard to external circumstances. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > circumstance or circumstances > [noun] > state of affairs or situation thingeOE stallc1000 estrec1300 farea1325 arrayc1386 casea1393 costa1400 state of thingsa1500 style?a1505 predicament1586 facta1617 posture1620 picture1661 situation1750 position1829 lie1850 posish1859 state of play1916 the form1934 score1938 sitch1954 a1505 R. Henryson Robene & Makyne 57 in Poems (1981) 177 Robene, I stand in sic a styll [rhymes quhyle, begyle]; I sicht, and that full sair. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 658 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 115 The stern empriouris style yus staitly restord Is. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 709 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 117 Quhar sic statis will steire yair stylis till ostend Ȝe wait all worschip and welth dayly Induris. 21. a. A particular mode or form of skilled construction, execution, or production; the manner in which a work of art is executed, regarded as characteristic of the individual artist, or of his time and place; one of the modes recognized in a particular art as suitable for the production of beautiful or skilful work. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style gusto1662 composition1695 style1706 expression1715 goût1717 handling1719 touching1743 conduct1758 rhetoric1851 treatment1856 1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 69 When a curious Person has well consider'd the different Pictures of a Master, and has form'd a perfect Idea of his Stile [Fr. de la maniére]. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Style, in Music, the manner of Singing and Composing... Thus we say, the Style of the Charissimi, of Lully, of Lambert; the Style of the Italians, the French, the Spaniards, &c. 1743 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Odes (new ed.) I. iii. i. 61 On Columns, rais'd in modern Style. 1763 J. Brown Diss. Poetry & Music xii. 210 It [Modern Church Music] is infected with the same Puerility of Stile, with their Opera Airs. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vii. 286 The hardest Egyptian stile, stiff and imperfect as it was, is more elegant [than that of Mexican painting]. 1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. ii. 69 Michael Angelo lived to see the electric shock which his design and style had given to art. 1812 G. Crabbe Tales v. 97 The shining tables, curiously inlaid, Were all in comfortless proud style display'd. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 84 At Lausanne we only stopped for dinner (which we obtained in sufficiently bad style at the Lion d'Or). 1858 F. C. Hingeston in Chron. J. Capgrave Introd. p. xxvi The style of the writing corresponds very closely with that of those MSS. of Capgrave which are known..to have been written by his own hand. 1865 Nat. Hist. Rev. 338 The ‘style’ in which the book has been produced is excellent. 1910 Encycl. Brit. II. 28/1 British manufacturers are building [fishing-] rods after the American style. b. In generalized sense. Often used for: Beauty or loftiness of style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > work of art > [noun] > artistic treatment or style > types of grotesque1561 charging1569 gusto1662 grand manner1695 manner1706 flatnessa1719 style1801 low key1803 mannerism1803 daguerreotype1850 chic1851 conventionalization1880 Louis Philippe1908 stylization1908 convention1926 historicism1939 pop1958 1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. ii. 60 The few nudities which he [Fra Bartolomeo] allowed himself to exhibit, shew sufficient intelligence and still more style. c. A definite type of architecture, distinguished by special characteristics of structure or ornamentation. Often with prefixed designation, as the Grecian style, Gothic style, Italian style, Romanesque style; the Norman style, Early English style, Decorated style, Perpendicular style, Tudor style, Renaissance style, Palladian style; and the like. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] architecturea1701 style1777 Populuxe1986 1777 W. Dalrymple Trav. Spain & Portugal cxxxiii A very handsome church..in the Gothic stile. 1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 46 The first or Norman style. 1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 56 The Second, or Early English Style. 1817 T. Rickman Attempt to discriminate Styles Eng. Archit. 71 The Third, or Decorated English Style. 1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 157 The beauties or defects of either the Egyptian, Grecian, Roman, or Gothic style. 1874 J. T. Micklethwaite Mod. Parish Churches 251 A man can no more invent a new style than he can invent a new language. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) I. 6 Each age had its architectural style distinctly and strongly marked. d. Printing. The rules and methods, in regard to typography, display, etc., observed in a particular printing-office. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > record and reference books > [noun] > style sheet style1871 style manual1922 style sheet1924 1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 451/2 It is highly important for a compositor to thoroughly familiarize himself with the style of the office in which he is employed, as well as the style adopted for any special work. 1871 Amer. Encycl. Printing 451/2 After a compositor has been at an office for years, where, habituated to the style of the house, he sets up words in type as follows. 1894 Amer. Dict. Printing, etc. 530 Most printing-offices have their own particular method in the matter of display, spelling, &c., and this is known as the style of the house. e. Calico printing. (a) See quot. 1844. (b) Any of the various methods in use for producing the coloured design. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > disposition of colours style1844 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > techniques ageing1830 grounding-in1839 style1874 1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. ii. 58 Among calico-printers the term pattern is applied to disposition of forms, while style is applied to disposition of colours. 1874 W. Crookes Pract. Handbk. Dyeing 566 The madder styles have for a long time played the most important part in calico-printing. 1892 J. T. Arlidge Hygiene of Occupations 523 The art of dyeing is one characterised by very diverse methods, or, as they are called, ‘styles’. 22. a. A kind, sort, or type, as determined by manner of composition or construction, or by outward appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > [noun] > a kind, sort, or class kinc950 kindOE distinction?c1225 rowc1300 spece1303 spice1303 fashionc1325 espicec1386 differencea1398 statec1450 sort?1523 notion1531 species1561 vein1568 brood1581 rank1585 order1588 race1590 breed1598 strain1612 batch1616 tap1623 siege1630 subdivision1646 notionality1651 category1660 denomination1664 footmark1666 genus1666 world1685 sortment1718 tribe1731 assortment1767 description1776 style1794 grouping1799 classification1803 subcategory1842 type1854 basket1916 1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho III. vii. 201 Of the latter style of countenance..were those of the peasant and his wife. 1811 J. Austen Sense & Sensibility II. xi. 214 There was something in her stile of beauty, to please them [i.e. men] particularly. View more context for this quotation 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 110 The former [murderer]..exhibiting a style of head and set of features which would have afforded sufficient moral grounds for his instant execution at any time. 1849 N. Brit. Rev. 11 479 Emilia Wyndham is a complete example of the style of novel in which Mrs. Marsh is qualified to succeed. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VII. 659 The ‘style’ of the symptoms, as I am in the habit of calling it. b. transferred. Said predicatively of a person or thing: What suits (a person's) taste; the ‘sort’ that (a person or set of persons) would choose or approve. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > fact of being to one's taste > that which is to one's taste mark1760 style1811 one's dish1918 1811 L.-M. Hawkins Countess & Gertrude I. xxi. 358 Had he continued to live en garçon, his own chariot, little less weighty than a farmer's loaded waggon, with gilt springs..would have been his style. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. 145 She is not the style of the day at all, you know. †c. in a..style. (a) Of a (specified) kind; (made) on a certain scale. (b) In a (good or bad) condition as regards health, mode of life, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > [adjective] > relating to state of health likingc1390 in a‥style1772 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > in respect of kind [phrase] > as opposed to individually of a (certain) sortc1380 of (also in) (a certain) naturec1390 in specie1562 in a‥style1772 1772 Test Filial Duty II. 24 Every thing here is in a great stile; I shall hence forward look on the middle part of England as the miniature of nature. 1789 C. Smith Ethelinde II. xi. 269 By all accounts he's in a bad style. He was always, I thought, a giddy unpromising boy. 1789 C. Smith Ethelinde III. i. 5 Nor should I have thrown away a thought on this [lady], had not she had the reputation of an understanding in a superior style. 1789 C. Smith Ethelinde III. xi. 264 My horses are all in a fine style. 23. a. Manner of executing a task or performing an action or operation. Often with reference to athletics, racing, games: The manner of action of a particular performer, racehorse, etc. Also gen., one's characteristic manner of acting or reacting. to cramp one's style: see cramp v. 5c. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > [noun] > specifically of a person or animal style1775 modus operandi1894 society > leisure > sport > types of play, actions, or postures > [noun] > style style1833 the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > habitual or characteristic i-cundeeOE manner?c1225 usagea1400 way1563 style1937 1775 E. Burke Speech Amer. Taxation 34 To repeal by a denial of our right to tax in the preamble..would have cut, in the heroic style, the Gordian knot with a sword. 1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 157 The bold adventurer ascended from Belvidere Grounds, Dublin,..and in a gradual and majestic style left the shores of Ireland. 1819 in London Gaz. (1820) No. 17629. 1670/1 That the service entrusted to him has been executed in a stile most creditable to the professional skill of the Major-General himself. 1833 H. Martineau Tale of Tyne i. 11 A barge was coming up in fine style. 1833 Q. Rev. 49 382 The style in which he [a horse] ran, his nose almost sweeping the ground. 1879 R. A. Proctor Rough Ways (1880) 159 They row in a style, which without being actually identical with that of the London waterman, resembles it in all essential respects. 1879 Oxf. & Cambr. Undergraduate Jrnl. 13 Mar. 291/2 If his staying powers can be trusted he is perhaps the best man in the boat, his style being very good. 1891 B. Harte First Family Tasajara x It was like you to..say all those mean, silly things to dad,..in your regular looney style. 1937 C. Odets Golden Boy i. iii. 47 Joe knows his own needs, as he says. Don't ask him to change his style. 1970 G. F. Newman Sir, You Bastard viii. 247 It hadn't been his original intention to make her suffer, but he couldn't alter his style. 1978 S. Brill Teamsters vi. 260 Lying low just isn't his style. b. Used absol. for: Good or fine style. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > [noun] > specific manner of action or operation > good style1864 1864 Times 21 Mar. 9/6 Mr. Hawkshaw, in speaking for the Cambridge crew, said they had been beaten by style. 24. a. A mode of deportment or behaviour; a mode or fashion of life, esp. in regard to expense, display, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > mode or manner of behaviour or conduct rate1517 pass1555 forma1616 style1770 pose1892 1770 C. Jenner Placid Man I. iii. iv. 163 He found Lady Clayton in a very high stile of passion. a1775 Hobie Noble xv, in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1890) IV. vii. 3 Then Hobie Noble is that deer; I wat he carries the style fu hie! 1780 New Newgate Cal. V. 161 Living in the stile of a gentleman. 1788 A. Hughes Henry & Isabella III. 66 An opportunity of marrying in such a manner as would enable her to live in a certain style, among a certain class. 1792 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) I. 374 The society is noisy and in bad style. a1794 E. Gibbon Memoirs in Misc. Wks. (1796) I. 117 Between the expensive style of Paris and of Italy it was prudent to interpose some months of tranquil simplicity. 1798 S. Lee Young Lady's Tale in H. Lee Canterbury Tales II. 14 [He] had already brought home an immense fortune from the East, and was now to return in a high style. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. xv. 192 That gentleman..lived in what is called great style . View more context for this quotation 1816 Brief Remarks Eng. Manners 87 I was convinced by their style that any overture on my part would be deemed an intrusion. 1825 C. Lamb Lepus Papers v, in Wks. (1903) I. 278 What a style you do live in! what elegant curtains! 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xv. 279 I began the process of ruining myself in the received style; like any other spoonie. 1885 ‘E. Garrett’ At Any Cost xiii. 246 I don't say your Miss Chrissie did anything in that style, but she lost her place here through her carryings on. 1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 270 So we left in great style, with bands playing and soldiers presenting arms. b. Used absol. for: Fashionable air, appearance, deportment, etc. Also, more generally, attractive or impressive quality; originality. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > [noun] fashionableness1640 à-la-modeness1669 modishness1676 à la modality1753 tonishness1780 style1807 stylishnessa1817 fashionability1840 swellishness1863 hep1899 hipness1937 coolness1951 hip1956 cool1962 hipdom1962 with-it-ness1963 funkiness1974 the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > attractive or impressive quality > [noun] accomplishment1586 chic1851 style1967 1807 Salmagundi 18 Apr. 154 Style..consists in certain fashions, or certain eccentricities, or certain manners, of certain people, in certain situations, and possessed of a certain share of fashion or importance. 1835 N. P. Willis Pencillings I. xxv. 175 A plain German city, with little or no pretensions to style. 1847 A. Smith Christopher Tadpole (1848) xxvi. 233 An evident wish to throw a little style into their costume. 1885 W. D. Howells Indian Summer (1886) ii. 16 The refined and indefinite perfume which exhaled from the ensemble of her silks, her laces, and her gloves, like an odorous version of that otherwise impalpable quality which women call style. 1967 Trans-action Apr. 11/1 Style is difficult to define as it has so many referents. It means to carry one's self well, dress well, to show class... A person with style must also show respect..for another's superior power. 1968 Listener 13 June 761/3 Jack, the prime Kennedy,..had a quality which practically everybody recognised as ‘style’. 1979 R. Jaffe Class Reunion (1980) ii. xi. 288 How much more dignified it would have been if Rusty could have trusted her... But Rusty had never had style. c. in style: splendidly, showily, according to fashionable requirements. Also †in a style. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > fashionableness > in fashion [phrase] in, out of (the) fashion1603 à la mode1637 in a style1781 up to the minute1909 1781 in W. Blane Ess. on Hunting 31 All other kind of Hounds are now entirely laid aside by those who affect to hunt in style. 1782 F. Burney Cecilia II. iv. vi. 202 We began with Cotillons, and finished with country dances. It was the most elegant thing you ever saw in your life; everything quite in a style. 1807 Sporting Mag. 29 23 Every gentleman who perambulates Bond-street and the Steyne in style. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 1st Ser. I. 289 The driver..—no doubt that you may do the thing in style—turns a deaf ear to your earnest entreaties to be set down at the corner. 1874 J. Ruskin Fors Clavigera IV. 39 This is what the modern British public thinks is ‘living in style’. d. transferred. Attractive quality (in a thing). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [noun] > attractive quality or feature lust1390 jollity1484 allure1534 Venus1540 attract1593 attraction1599 attractive1607 gold dust1690 charm1697 charmingness1727 take1794 charmfulness1842 style1897 appeal1916 pull factor1938 1897 Daily News 18 Mar. 8/7 They found that the beer had ‘more style,’ as it was called, when there was a certain admixture of foreign barley. 25. A particular mode or fashion of costume. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] wearing?c1225 guisec1275 attire1382 habita1420 shapea1425 trick1542 fashion1544 trim1579 suit shape1598 garb1608 form1664 toilet1752 macaroni dressa1777 turn-out1812 style1814 set-out1834 get-up1842 rig1843 feather1854 model1859 make-up1883 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. vi. 121 A better style of dress. View more context for this quotation 1833 H. Martineau Brooke & Brooke Farm (ed. 3) viii His daughters look very well in their better style of dress. 1860 Draper & Clothier I. 129/1 The dress is of the style called in Paris, the robe Impératrice. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xvi. 34 Got up, both inside and out, as candidates in the style of the period. 1891 Truth 10 Dec. 1240/2 The front was all white satin, made in Empire style. 26. A person's characteristic bearing, demeanour, or manner, esp. as conducing to beauty or striking appearance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > demeanour or bearing > especially as striking in appearance presence1570 style1827 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. xv. 317 Most amusing, delightful girl—great style! 1861 Mrs. H. Wood Shadow of Ashlydyat i. ii I do not see much beauty in Charlotte Pain. I do not like her style. 1869 H. B. Stowe Oldtown Folks vi. 68 There are some very homely women who have a style that amounts to something like beauty. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iv. 21 Mr. Sapsea is very proud of this, and of his voice, and of his style. IV. With reference to dating systems. 27. a. A mode of expressing dates. Chiefly, Either of the two methods of dating that have been current in the Christian world since the introduction of the Gregorian calendar in 1582: viz., the New Style (abbreviated N.S.), which is the result of the Gregorian reform, and the Old Style (O.S.) which follows the unreformed calendar. The New Style is occasionally called the Roman Style, and the Old Style the English Style. In historical dates earlier than 1582, however, Roman Style, as used by modern writers, means only that the year mentioned is to be understood as beginning on 1 January.The Julian calendar was based on the assumption that the tropical year consisted of 365¼ days. In order that the average calendar year should have this length, it was provided that the normal year should contain 365 days, but every fourth year 366 days. Down to a.d. 1582 the Julian calendar continued to be used by all Christian nations. In calendars and almanacs, the year began on 1 January (like the Roman consular year); but for ordinary purposes the time of beginning the year was different in different places; in England, after some fluctuations, the beginning of the legal year was fixed for 25 March. After the adoption of the Christian era, the leap years were those whose number a.d.(reckoned from 1 January) was divisible by 4.The Julian estimate of 365¼ days for the length of the tropical year was too great by about 11 minutes, an error which amounts to one day in about 128 years. Hence in 1581 the date of 21 March for the vernal equinox, assumed since the early 4th cent. in the rule for computing Easter, was 10 days too late. To remedy this inconvenience, and to prevent its recurrence, Pope Gregory XIII, acting on the advice of the Jesuit Clavius and other eminent astronomers, ordained that in a.d. 1582 the day after 4 October should be reckoned as 15 October, and that in future the years which had a number ending in two cyphers should not be leap years unless the number were divisible by 400. The Julian date of 1 January for the beginning of the year was retained. The difference between the old and new calendars continued to be 10 days until 1700 (the first disputed leap-year), when it became 11 days; in 1800 it became 12 days, and in 1900 13 days, from which there will be no further increase till 2100.The Gregorian calendar (so called from the name of the Pope) was speedily adopted in all Roman Catholic countries, while the other nations of Europe adhered to their traditional reckoning. In the 17th and 18th centuries, it was often found necessary to state whether a date was according to Old or New Style, or to give both datings. As the nations which accepted the reform usually began the year on 1 Jan., not, as in England, on 25 March, there was for the March quarter (in addition to the other difference) a discrepancy in the number of the year between the Old Style and New Style dates.In England and Scotland the Gregorian calendar was established by the Act 24 Geo. II. c. 23 (1751), which provided that the year 1752 and all future years should begin on 1 January instead of 25 March (in Scotland this rule had been adopted in 1600), that the day after 2 September 1752 should be reckoned the 14 September, and that the reformed rule for leap year should in future be followed. Ireland followed in 1788. The use of New Style is now universal throughout the Christian world with the exception of certain countries of the Greek Church; in Russia it was officially adopted by the revolutionary government in 1918. In France the expression New Style had been current before the time of the Gregorian reform, with reference to the change in the beginning of the year from Easter to 1 January, which took place in that country in 1563. [With New Style compare post-classical Latin stilus novus (1589 in a British source), French nouveau style method of fixing the beginning of the year following the reform of 1582 (1588 or earlier), method of counting days according to the revolutionary calendar (1802). With Old Style compare French ancien style (1610 or earlier), vieux style (1615 or earlier). With Roman Style compare Middle French stile romaine, with reference to an earlier type of chronology, distinguished from stile françois French style (1334).] ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > old style or new style English Style1590 Julian account1592 new style1615 old style1617 N.S.1698 O.S.1710 1589 J. Dee Private Diary (1842) 31 Aug. 5th, novo stylo, Edmond Hilton went toward Stade.] 1590 H. Wotton in L. P. Smith Life & Lett. Sir H. Wotton (1907) I. 239 Written the xxv of September, 1590, style of England. 1615 Cocks Diary 18 June (1883) I. 11 I receved a letter from Jorge Durois, dated in Langasaque, le 22nd of June, new stile. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 63 The ninth of September, after the old stile (for the new style is vsed in Poland) I tooke my iourney to Crakaw. 1625 in S. R. Gardiner Documents Impeachm. Duke of Buckingham (1889) 160 The eight and twentieth day of this presente moneth of March, Old Stile of England. 1664 R. Fanshawe Let. in Lady Fanshawe Mem. (1829) 329 Madrid, Wednesday, the 15th June, 1664, English Style. 1674 J. Moxon Tutor to Astron. & Geogr. (ed. 3) ii. 84 I look in the Calender of Old Stile for June 1. 1678 Trial of Coleman 28 In the month of April old stile, May new stile. 1712 E. Budgell Spectator No. 395. ¶3 Telling me she looked upon the Month as then out, for that she had all along reckoned by the New Style. 1716 Mar Jrnl. in Patten Hist. Rebell. (1717) 269 It was about the middle of December (our Style) before he could reach Dunkirk. 1753 in W. W. Wilkins Polit. Ballads (1860) II. 311 In seventeen hundred and fifty three The Style it was chang'd to Popery. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 35 Russia is..the only country in which bills are dated by the Old Style. 1829 S. Shaw Hist. Staffs. Potteries vi. 137 At the time of altering the Style, in 1752. 1862 L. F. Simpson Autob. Chas. V p. v Where he was born on February 24, 1500, according to Roman Style. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xxii. 387 The 9th of August, old style [i.e. according to the pre-Julian reckoning], or towards the end of May by real time, Cæsar had [etc.]. b. transferred (in nonce-uses). ΚΠ 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. ii. 207 Then they parted to dress, it being now past three in the Morning, or to reckon by the old Style, in the Afternoon. View more context for this quotation 1755 J. Shebbeare Lydia (1769) II. 80 By which manner of computation he was but fifty in his style, and sixty in that of all others. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. style-like adj. ΚΠ 1822 J. Parkinson Outl. Oryctol. 72 A round, lamellated star, with a projecting style-like axis in the centre. 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 11/2 Urocentrum..is furnished posteriorly with a sharp style-like process. b. (In sense 8.) style-flag n. ΚΠ 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. (1816) I. ix. 295 The petal-like expansion or style-flag [in Iris]. style-flap n. ΚΠ 1907 G. F. S. Elliot Romance Plant Life 197 In Mimulus the style-flaps close when touched. c. (In sense 21d.) style manual n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > record and reference books > [noun] > style sheet style1871 style manual1922 style sheet1924 1922 (title) Style manual of the Government printing office (U.S. Govt. Printing Office). 1964 E. D. Seeber (title) A style manual for students. style sheet n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > record and reference books > [noun] > style sheet style1871 style manual1922 style sheet1924 1924 H. L. Mencken Let. 7 Dec. (1961) 272 Have you such a thing as a Style Sheet for The Atlantic? 1982 R. Quirk Style & Communication in Eng. Lang. i. 16 This is not, of course, to say that the existence of the ‘style sheet’ mentality is always advantageous. C2. style analysis n. analysis of the characteristic style of an artist, writer, composer, etc., or of a school or period, on the basis of which attribution of a particular work can be made. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > critical analysis analysis1580 autopsy1879 style analysis1927 close reading1932 1927 E. Rickert New Methods for Study of Lit. Index 274/2 Subjectivity in style analysis. 1953 M. Schapiro in A. Kroeber Anthropol. Today 290/1 The refinement of style analysis has come about..through problems in which small differences had to be..described precisely. 1955 H. Read Icon & Idea vi. 112 Then are many other factors which can be used in style analysis..but though all these stylistic traits build up to an index of the painter's personality, they do not..indicate the painter's awareness of a self. 1969–70 Computers & Humanities IV. 41 These results, minor as they are, are of a nature that has not been achieved in any other use of the computer for style analysis in music. 1973 Black World Nov. 5/1 Conventional histories of music and style-analysis texts generally ignored the subject of the Black man's contribution to music. style-book n. (a) a book containing ‘styles’ of writs, etc., according to Scots law (see 17); (b) originally U.S., a book containing the methods and regulations observed in a particular printing-office (W. 1911) . ΘΚΠ society > law > jurisprudence > [noun] > book treating of law > type of book or spec. book style-book1708 white book1965 1708 J. Spottiswoode Introd. Stile of Writs Pref. (1727) a 6 b I have thought fit to communicate the Scheme of a Stile-book, form'd by James Hay of Carribber for the Use of the Gentlemen educated in his Writing-Chamber. 1870 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 V. lvii. 439 The narrative of the method of the deed has a certain old quaintness that may relieve it of the stiffness of the modern-style book. 1898 (title) Stylebook of the Chicago Society of Proofreaders. 1930 N.Y. Times 7 Mar. 22/5 (heading) In our ‘style book’ ‘Negro’ is now added to the list of words to be capitalized. It is not merely a typographical change; it is an act in recognition of racial self-respect. 1981 K. Waterhouse Daily Mirror Style 5 In most newspaper offices there is to be found a manual known as the style-book which lays down..the paper's rules on the usage of words and punctuation. style critic n. an expert in style analysis. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > [noun] > types of literary criticism > exponent of form-historian1928 form-critic1933 contextualist1936 New Critic1941 style critic1959 Barthesian1966 new historicist1971 narratologist1974 post-structuralist1974 deconstructor1978 Derridean1978 deconstructionist1982 1959 Times 26 May 13/5 On that hypothesis David stays as the author of the 75 pictures,..finally reinstated by modern style-critics. 1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 718/2 He may be the less inclined to indulge in wild or subjective speculation than the style critic. style-setter n. someone who or something which sets the fashion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > pioneering or breaking new ground > a pioneer pioneer1605 outstarter1738 advance guard1759 path-breaker1843 pathfinder1847 torch-bearer1847 path-hewer1879 pacesetter1895 pacemaker1905 trail-blazer1908 style-setter1959 1959 News Chron. 1 July 3/1 I have a feeling it is going to be a style-setter. 1960 News Chron. 29 Feb. 6/7 Princess Margaret has always been a style-setter. style-setting adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [adjective] > pioneering pioneering1785 pioneer1845 pace-setting1902 groundbreaking1904 front line1914 style-setting1955 breakthrough1956 leading edge1977 1955 O. Keepnews & W. Grauer Pict. Hist. Jazz iii. 44 Earl Hines..quickly developed into an outstanding and style-setting pianist. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 1 Mar. 44/2 The Fordson Dexta with its proved style-setting three cylinder Diesel engine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). stylev. Brit. /stʌɪl/, U.S. /staɪl/ Forms: Also 1500s–1800s stile, 1500s Scottish styell, 1600s still(e, Scottish stylle, (1700s past participle stilen). Etymology: < style n.French styler means ‘to train, practise, instruct’. 1. a. transitive. To give a name or style to; to call by a name or style. Const. with complement; †also with for, with. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > call or give as name to > designate or style as sayOE calla1250 deemc1400 nevenc1425 qualify?1465 designa1500 expound1530 style1570 read1590 intenda1599 dub1607 instyle1607 phrase1607 enstyle1616 speaka1625 cognominate1632 determine1653 clapa1657 designate1669 intimate1799 nominate1799 bedub1884 tab1924 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 938/1 How soeuer it pleaseth..Syr Thomas More..to stile Richard Hunne, for a knowne & desperate heretique. c1580 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems l. 2 Luiffaris, leif of to loif so hie Ȝour ladyes; and thame styell no mair, But peir, the erthlie A per se. 1609 S. Hieron Abridgem. of Gospell in All the Serm. (1614) 119 Hee..is therefore stiled, A murtherer from the beginning. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. ii. xvii. §8. 491 So they [sc. the Psalms] are intituled in the old Hebrew copies, though the vulgar and Septuagint..stile them otherwise. 1630 Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1634, 13/2 Wmquhill Johnne lord Halyruidhous, then styllit Mr Johne Bothuell. 1663 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 229 Such strainge and unbeseeming titles I forbeare to stile you with. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 289 The strife which thou call'st evil, but wee style The strife of Glorie. View more context for this quotation a1675 B. Whitelocke Memorials Eng. Affairs (1682) anno 1649 363/2 Now the Commons stil'd what were before Ordinances, at this time Acts of Parliament. 1686 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 504 One Hall, who styled himselfe his Majesties Printer. 1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 251 The present Queen (as she is styl'd). 1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France ii, in Wks. (1808) VIII. 251 That liberty was found, under Monarchies stiled absolute, in a degree unknown to the ancient commonwealths. 1829 S. H. Cassan Lives Bishops of Bath & Wells iii. 24 That from henceforward the Bishop should be stiled from both places. 1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 151 What we have called a fixed error is in fact a part of the phenomenon, styled an error because it is not a part of the result we wish to observe. 1855 R. Browning Fra Lippo Lippi in Men & Women I. 37 Yes, I'm the painter, since you style me so. 1894 Lady M. Verney Verney Mem. III. 95 The old man is still styled bailiff in 1639. †b. Of a thing: To invest with a right to be called (so-and-so). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > give a name to [verb (transitive)] > call or give as name to > invest with right to be called style1634 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 19 Both sexe goe naked, a linnen cloth only about their middles, which stiles them modest. †c. To sign (a letter) with one's name and title. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > personal identification > signature > sign (a document) [verb (transitive)] sign1442 assign1563 underwrite1569 subsign1572 undersign1580 paragraph1601 style1619 side-sign1708 signature1766 re-sign1805 autographize1822 autograph1833 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. ii. xii. 193 When hee wrote to the Roman Generall..and styled the letter, he put himselfe downe in it by the name of king. †2. To name or address with honorific titles; to honour with a title. Scottish. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > courtesy > courteous forms of address or title > address with courteous title [verb (transitive)] style?a1513 a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 200 Quhilk hes thame self aboif the sternis styld. a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 203 Sen thow with wirschep wald sa fane be styld, Haill, souerane senȝeour. 1535 D. Lindsay Satyre 599 Howbeit I haif lang tyme bene exyllit, I traist in God my name suld ȝit be styllit. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 4666 in Wks. (1931) I The pure Preist thynkis he gettis no rycht, Be he nocht stylit lyke ane Knycht, And callit ‘schir’ affore his name. †3. To relate or express in literary form. With adverb: To express or phrase in a specified style. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > express in a specific style [verb (transitive)] style1605 society > leisure > the arts > literature > art or occupation of writer or author > be the author of or write (a work) [verb (transitive)] > express in written work or write about writeOE inditea1340 pena1527 pursue1558 to lay down1583 discur1586 paper1594 style1605 word1613 exercisea1616 bescribble1643 describble1794 bewrite1875 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee1^v In the later [sense], it [sc. poesy] is..one of the principalll Portions of learning: and is nothing else but fained history, which may be stiled as well in Prose as in Verse. View more context for this quotation 1605 1st Pt. Jeronimo sig. A4^v The phraise he vseth must be gently stylde, The king hath warned him to be smooth and mild. †4. To order, direct to a purpose. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > intend [verb (transitive)] > direct actions, speech, etc., towards fasteneOE turna1200 redressa1393 intend?1504 convert1533 level1576 terminate1599 style1608 colline1674 intent1695 beam1956 target1964 1608 T. Hudson tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Ivdith iv. 58 in J. Sylvester Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) So wise Merari all his studie stilde, To facion well the maners of this childe. 5. To pierce with a stylet. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > bore, pierce, or perforate > with something sharp-pointed > with a stylet style1740 1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 10 The Substance of the Ears should be..free from Flesh; and their Points when stiled or pricked should be nearer than their Roots. 6. To execute (a design) with a stylus on a prepared ground. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > incise (marks or figures) [verb (transitive)] writeeOE gravec1275 raspc1400 insculp?a1475 insculpt1487 scrape1532 sculp?1533 engrave1542 enchase1579 incarve1596 engraven1605 trencha1616 scratch1644 style1864 lithograph1872 scribe1896 1864 Maclise in Builder 27 Feb. 150/3 The cartoon to be punctured or styled on the wall and slavishly copied. 7. To design, arrange, make, etc., in a particular (esp. fashionable) style. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [verb (transitive)] > design, arrange, or make in a particular style style1934 1934 J. Rorty Our Master's Voice Advertising 11 ‘Styling’ clothes, kitchens, automobiles—everything, in the interest of more rapid obsolescence and replacement. 1936 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. (ed. 4) 194 The American liking for short cuts in speech, e.g...to style for to cut in accord with the style. 1958 J. Cannan And be Villain i. 25 The fashions of the day, styled to suit gamines. 1958 Observer 25 May 17/2 Mgr. Knox seems to have styled his translation to fit in with the least sufferable conceptions of this, really, stout-hearted young girl. 1976 ‘Z. Stone’ Modigliani Scandal iii. iv. 137 Her hair had been styled by Sassoon. Draft additions September 2016 intransitive. U.S. colloquial. To show off, especially when fashionably or ostentatiously dressed. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)] brandishc1340 ruffle1484 braga1556 swash1556 flourish1563 flaunt1566 prank1567 prink1573 to shake, wag the feather1581 peacockize1598 air1605 display1608 to launch it out1608 flasha1616 to cut it out1619 flare1633 vapour1652 peacock1654 spark1676 to gallantrize it1693 bosh1709 glare1712 to cut a bosh1726 to show away1728 to figure away, off1749 parade1749 to cut a dashc1771 dash1786 to cut up1787 to cut a flash1795 to make, or cut, a splash1804 swank1809 to come out strong1825 to cut a spludge1831 to cut it (too) fat1836 pavonize1838 splurge1844 to do the grand1847 to cut a swath1848 to cut a splurge1860 to fan out1860 spread1860 skyre1871 fluster1876 to strut one's stuff1926 showboat1937 floss1938 style1968 1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) Fall 46 Style, to show off. 1980 M. Thelwell Harder they Come v. 143 Everybody just styling—but mostly small groups of both sexes extremely conscious of each other. 1991 C. Fletcher Pure Cop 112 These guys know enough not to style in front of the judge. 2006 Battle Creek (Mich.) Enquirer (Electronic ed.) 24 Dec. b1 Don't be surprised if you see 'em stylin' around town. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > see also also refers to : -stylesuffix < n.c1330v.?a1513 see also
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