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Finely finished, as a style of composition. A graceful and ornate rhetoric. Milton.

Over and over; -- applied to a style of sewing, or to a seam, in which two edges, usually selvedges, are sewed together by passing each stitch over both.

Of or pertaining to the Latin poet Ovid; resembling the style of Ovid.

for a palace; resembling a palace; royal; magnificent; as, palatial structures. "Palatial style." A. Drummond.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a variety of the revived classic style of architecture, founded on the works of Andrea Palladio, an Italian architect of the 16th century.

Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.

A composition in a soft, rural style, generally in 6-8 or 12-8 time.

The use of local or provincial words, as in the peculiar style or diction of Livy, the Roman historian; -- so called from Patavium, now Padua, the place of Livy's nativity.

which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. -- The pathetic, a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.

Figure or style of decoration; design; as, wall paper of a beautiful pattern.

A style of four-legged table in vogue in England, chiefly in the later Georgian period.

Fig.: A writer, or his style; as, he has a sharp pen. "Those learned pens." Fuller.

A hanging ornament on roofs, ceilings, etc., much used in the later styles of Gothic architecture, where it is of stone, and an important part of the construction. There are imitations in plaster and wood, which are mere decorative features. "[A bridge] with . . . pendants graven fair." Spenser.

of Homer should penetrate himself with a sense of the plainness and directness of Homer's style. M. Arnold.

The use of the pen in writing; the art of writing; style or manner of writing; chirography; as, good or bad penmanship.

A Linnæan order of plants, having five styles or pistils.

Of or pertaining to plants of the order Pentagyna; having five styles.

A bombastic or labored style. [R.]

o a given line or surface; as, the line ad is perpendicular to the line bc. Perpendicular style (Arch.), a name given to the latest variety of English Gothic architecture, which prevailed from the close of the 14th century to the early part of the 16th; -- probably so called from the vertical style of its window mullio…

To write or speak in the style of a philippic.