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In the style of an amateur; superficial or defective like the work of an amateur. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ly, adv. -- Am`a*teur"ish*ness, n.

ging from, characterized by, or indicating, ambition; showy; aspiring; as, an ambitious style. A giant statue . . . Pushed by a wild and artless race, From off wide, ambitious base. Collins.

Enamel. [Obs.] Boyle.

submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.

In a soft, tender, amatory style.

r character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. -- A*mor"phous*ly, adv. -- A*mor"phous*ness, n.

gical sense; in accordance with analogy; by way of similitude. A prince is analogically styled a pilot, being to the state as a pilot is to the vessel. Berkeley.

Pertaining to a process or a style of printing from characters in relief on zinc plates.

nchorite's or a monastic life, but a social and affable way of conversing with mortals. Boyle.

Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style."A stiff annalistic method." Sir G. C. Lewis.

also, that which anonymous. [R.] He rigorously insisted upon the rights of anonymity. Carlyle.

Opposition to the body politic of citizens. [Obs.] Carlyle.

Made in imitation of antiquity; as, the antique style of Thomson's "Castle of Indolence."

nature of, an aphorism; in the form of short, unconnected sentences; as, an aphoristic style. The method of the book is aphoristic. De Quincey.

Anything viewed as a revelation; as disclosure. The new apocalypse of Nature. Carlyle.

previously adhered. He apostatized from his old faith in facts, took to believing in Carlyle.

To bring near; to cause to draw near; to advance. [Archaic] Boyle.

To bask in the sun. Boyle.

plied to buildings which have no series of columns along their sides, but are either prostyle or amphiprostyle, and opposed to peripteral. R. Cyc.

A style of ornamentation either painted, inlaid, or carved in low relief. It consists of a pattern in which plants, fruits, foliage, etc., as well as figures of men and animals, real or imaginary, are fantastically interlaced or put together.