6. Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title;
the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as,
the style of Majesty.
One style to a gracious benefactor, another to a proud, insulting
foe.
Burke.
7. (Chron.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and
Gregorian calendars.
Style is Old or New. The Old Style follows the Julian manner of
computing the months and days, or the calendar as established by Julius
Cæsar, in which every fourth year consists of 366 days, and the other
years of 365 days. This is about 11 minutes in a year too much. Pope
Georgy XIII. reformed the calendar by retrenching 10 days in October,
1582, in order to bring back the vernal equinox to the same day as at
the time of the Council of Nice, a. d. 325. This reformation was
adopted by act of the British Parliament in 1751, by which act 11 days
in September, 1752, were retrenched, and the third day was reckoned the
fourteenth. This mode of reckoning is called New Style, according to
which every year divisible by 4, unless it is divisible by 100 without
being divisible by 400, has 366 days, and any other year 365 days.
Style of court, the practice or manner observed by a court in its
proceedings. Ayliffe.
Syn. -- Diction; phraseology; manner; course; title. See Diction.
Style, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Styled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Styling.] To
entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate. "Styled great
conquerors." Milton.
How well his worth and brave adventures styled.
Dryden.
Syn. -- To call; name; denominate; designate; term; characterize.
Sty"let (?), n. [F., dim. of style; cf. It. stiletto. See Stiletto.] A
small poniard; a stiletto.
2. (Surg.) (a) An instrument for examining wounds and fistulas, and for
passing setons, and the like; a probe, -- called also specillum. (b) A
stiff wire, inserted in catheters or other tubular instruments to
maintain their shape and prevent clogging.
3. (Zoöl.) Any small, more or less rigid, bristlelike organ; as, the
caudal stylets of certain insects; the ventral stylets of certain
Infusoria.
Sty*lif"er*ous (?), a. [Style + -ferous.] (Bot.) Bearing one or more
styles.
Sty"li*form (?), a. [Style + - form: cf. F. styliforme.] Having the
form of, or resembling, a style, pin, or pen; styloid.
Styl"ish (?), a. Having style or artistic quality; given to, or fond
of, the display of style; highly fashionable; modish; as, a stylish
dress, house, manner. -- Styl"ish*ly, adv. -- Styl"ish*ness, n.
Styl"ist, n. One who is a master or a model of style, especially in
writing or speaking; a critic of style.
Distinguished as a stylist, for ease.
Fitzed. Hall.
Sty*lis"tic (?), a. Of or pertaining to style in language. [R.]
"Stylistic trifles." J. A. Symonds.
The great stylistic differences in the works ascribed to him
[Wyclif].
G. P. Marsh.
Sty"lite (?), n. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; a pillar.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a
sect of anchorites in the early church, who lived on the tops of
pillars for the exercise of their patience; -- called also pillarist
and pillar saint.
Sty"lo- (?). A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection
with, or relation to, the styloid process of the temporal bone; as,
stylohyal, stylomastoid, stylomaxillary.
Sty"lo*bate (?), n. [L. stylobates, stylobata, Gr. &?;; &?; a pillar +
&?; one that treads, fr. &?; to go.] (Arch.) The uninterrupted and
continuous flat band, coping, or pavement upon which the bases of a row
of columns are supported. See Sub-base.
Sty`lo*glos"sal (?), a. [Stylo- + glossal.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to
styloid process and the tongue.
Sty"lo*graph (?), n. A stylographic pen.
Sty`lo*graph"ic (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to stylography; used in
stylography; as, stylographic tablets.