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The manners of a courtier; courtliness. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.

The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.

A sycophantic courtier. B. Jonson.

Relating or belonging to a court.

The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor. Swift.

A court or inclosure attached to a house.

To treat courteously; to court. [Obs.] Spenser.

The secondary, inferior, or rear courtyard of a large house; the outer court of a castle.

Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis*cour"te*ous*ness, n.

respect; incivility. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Herbert.

Want of courtesy. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

An outer or exterior court. The skirts and outcourts of heaven. South.

Absence of courtliness; rudeness; rusticity. Addison.

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply of the pope to a letter, and afterwards expand the minute into official form.

he persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

h abnegation of God, of his honor, and of religion, they may retain the friendship of the court. Knox.

Higher in rank or power; as, he appealed to the court above.

one's abode; as, to walk abroad. I went to St. James', where another was preaching in the court abroad. Evelyn.

intending accountant in certain public offices. Also, formerly, an officer in the English court of chancery who received the moneys paid into the court, and deposited them in the Bank of England.