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Having some of the forms, such as drapery or the like, too sharply defined. "An edgy style of sculpture." Hazlitt.

A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with some material which resists the fluids of a battery; so that, in electro-typing, the parts not covered by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of thi…

y; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style, form, architecture, etc. That grace that elegance affords. Drayton. The endearing elegance of female friendship. Johnson. A trait of native elegance, seldom seen in the masculine character after childhood or early youth, wa…

ish, and the like; graceful; tasteful and highly attractive; as, elegant manners; elegant style of composition; an elegant speaker; an elegant structure. A more diligent cultivation of elegant literature. Prescott.

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.

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.

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.