STYLED
Adjective
styled (comparative more styled, superlative most styled)
Set in place, arranged.
Verb
styled
simple past tense and past participle of style
Source: Wiktionary
STYLE
Style, n. Etym: [OE. stile, F. style, Of. also stile, L. stilus a
style or writing instrument, manner or writing, mode of expression;
probably for stiglus, meaning, a pricking instrument, and akin to E.
stick. See Stick, v. t., and cf. Stiletto. The spelling with y is due
to a supposed connection with Gr.
1. An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered
with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and
somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing
the wax.
2. Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
Specifically: --
(a) A pen; an author's pen. Dryden.
(b) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
(c) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
(d) (Zoöl.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles
of insects. (e) Etym: [Perhaps fr. Gr.
Definition: The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates
the hour. See Gnomon. (f) Etym: [Probably fr. Gr. (Bot.)
Definition: The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the
stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
3. Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written;
especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as
exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement
of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.
High style, as when that men to kinges write. Chaucer.
Style is the dress of thoughts. Chesterfield.
Proper words in proper places make the true definition of style.
Swift.
It is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work. I.
Disraeli.
4. Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts;
a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or
accomplishing a result.
The ornamental style also possesses its own peculiar merit. Sir J.
Reynolds.
5. Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed
elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
According to the usual style of dedications. C. Middleton.
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.)
Definition: A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and
Gregorian calendars.
Note: 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.]
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition