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According to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.

Freedom to act according to one's own judgment; unrestrained exercise of choice or will. At discretion, without conditions or stipulations.

At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment.

The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. Sir T. Browne.

with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance. Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey. Swift.

To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott.

past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

apers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

s, arrayed in fanciful patterns. Domino theory. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country with a Western orie…

nistration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.

The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.

the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West. East by north, East by south, according to the notation of the mariner's compass, that point which lies 11 -- East-northeast, East-southeast, that which lie 22Illust. of Compass.

A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.

In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.

ects of mercy and salvation; -- one of the "five points" of Calvinism. There is a remnant according to the election of grace. Rom. xi. 5.

According to elements; literally; as, the words, "Take, eat; this is my body," elementally understood.

According to; conformably to. [Obs.] Chaucer. Emforth my might, so far as lies in my power. [Obs.]

A subordinary, resembling the pale, but of one fourth its width (according to some writers, one eighth).

osit for copyright the title or description of (a book, picture, map, etc.); as, "entered according to act of Congress."

ves or surfaces, the form and position of the members of the system being allowed to vary according to some continuous law. Thus, any curve is the envelope of its tangents. push the envelope. It is used to refer to the maximum performance available at the current state of the technology, and therefore refers to a class…