7. Method of procedure; manner or way of conducting; conduct; behavior.

My lord of York commends the plot and the general course of the action.

Shak.

By perseverance in the course prescribed.

Wodsworth.

You hold your course without remorse.

Tennyson.

8. A series of motions or acts arranged in order; a succession of acts or practices connectedly followed; as, a course of medicine; a course of lectures on chemistry.

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