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s you speak in prayer. Sir H. Sidney. How shall this bosom multiplied digest The senate's courtesy Shak.

to take away the luster of; to darken; to dull; to obscure; to eclipse. A king among his courtiers, who dims all his attendants. Dryden. Now set the sun, and twilight dimmed the ways. Cowper.

The body of ministers or envoys resident at a court; the diplomatic body. [R.] Burke.

A minister, official agent, or envoy to a foreign court; a diplomatist.

Pertaining to diplomacy; relating to the foreign ministers at a court, who are called the diplomatic body.

use official approbation to; to disallow; to decline to sanction; as, the sentence of the court-martial was disapproved by the commander in chief.

To let fly, as a missile; to shoot. They do discharge their shot of courtesy. Shak.

ng under the displeasure of some one; state of unacceptableness; as, to be in disfavor at court.

vileges of citizenship or of chartered immunities. Sentenced first to dismission from the court, and then to disfranchisement and expulsion from the colony. Palfrey.

To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. Spenser.

To lay aside or reject as unworthy of attentions or regard, as a petition or motion in court.

Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous. [Obs.] That were dispunct to the ladies. B. Jonson.

Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.

To intoxicate. [R.] The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say distempered, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. Massinger.

r Congressional. -- District attorney, the prosecuting officer of a district or district court. -- District court, a subordinate municipal, state, or United States tribunal, having jurisdiction in certain cases within a judicial district. -- District judge, one who presides over a district court. -- District school…

In Turkey and other Oriental countries: A council of state; a royal court. Also used by the poets for a grand deliberative council or assembly. Pope.

A legal dissolution of the marriage contract by a court or other body having competent authority. This is properly a divorce, and called, technically, divorce a vinculo matrimonii. "from the bond of matrimony."

General manager; factotum. Under him, Dunstan was the do-all at court, being the king's treasurer, councilor, chancellor, confessor, all things. Fuller.

The place in court where a criminal or accused person stands. Balance dock, a kind of floating dock which is kept level by pumping water out of, or letting it into, the compartments of side chambers. -- Dry dock, a dock from which the water may be shut or pumped out, especially, one in the form of a chamber having wal…

oceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.