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Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.

Having the style spring from the base, instead of from the apex, as is the case in certain ovaries.

Peculiar appearance; apparent character; semblance; manner; style. It was communicated with the air of a secret. Pope.

Made or decorated after the fanciful style of the ornamentation in the Alhambra, which affords an unusually fine exhibition of Saracenic or Arabesque architecture.

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.

inging 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.

In a soft, tender, amatory style.

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

logical 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.

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

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

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

applied 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.

Ornamented in the style of arabesques.

Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness. A select vocabulary corresponding (in point of archaism and remoteness from ordinary use) to our Scriptural vocabulary. De Quincey.

Fig.: Want of interest of feeling; insensibility; dryness of style or feeling; spiritual drought. Norris.

In the smooth and melodious style of an air; ariose.

g. an ending of the second person sing. pret. Cf. Be. Now used only in solemn or poetical style.