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dition of being elevated; height; exaltation. "Degrees of elevation above us." Locke. His style . . . wanted a little elevation. Sir H. Wotton.

Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. "The elocution of a reader." Whately

with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors.

press the mind and arouse the feelings; life; spirit; -- said of speech, language, words, style; as, a style full of energy.

To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain. Leaves engrained in lusty green. Spenser.

eparatory to final action on its passage. -- Engrossing hand (Penmanship), a fair, round style of writing suitable for engrossing legal documents, legislative bills, etc.

In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.

Having or producing nine pistils or styles; -- said of a flower or plant.

Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty. [R.] Entireness in preaching the gospel. Udall.

Narrated in a grand style; pertaining to or designating a kind of narrative poem, usually called an heroic poem, in which real or fictitious events, usually the achievements of some hero, are narrated in an elevated style. The epic poem treats of one great, complex action, in a grand style and with fullness of detail.…

The style of the epigram. Antithesis, i. e., bilateral stroke, is the soul of epigram in its later and technical signification. B. Cracroft.

e to epigrams; belonging to epigrams; like an epigram; pointed; piquant; as, epigrammatic style, wit, or sallies of fancy.

In the way of epigram; in an epigrammatic style.

One who writes in an affectedly pointed style. Epigrammatizers of our English prose style. Coleridge.

Of or pertaining to epigraphs or to epigraphy; as, an epigraphic style; epigraphical works or studies.

taining to epistles or letters; suitable to letters and correspondence; as, an epistolary style.

Pertaining to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.

Previously; before; formerly; heretofore. Chaucer. Tityrus, with whose style he had erst disclaimed all ambition to match his pastoral pipe. A. W. Ward. At erst, at first; at the beginning. -- Now at erst, at this present time. Chaucer.

A suffix of certain words from the French, Italian, and Spanish. It denotes manner or style; like; as, arabesque, after the manner of the Arabs.

r exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement. I wear my trusty sword, When I do exercise. Cowper.