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Court
COURT, n.
1. A place in front of a house, inclosed by a wall or fence; in popular language, a court-yard.
2. A space inclosed by houses, broader than a street; or a space forming a kind of recess from a public street.
3. A palace; the place of residence of a king or sovereign prince.
4. The hall, chamber or place where justice is administered.
St. Paul was brought into the highest court in Athens.
5. Persons who compose the retinue or council of a king or emperor.
6. The persons or judges assembled for hearing and deciding causes, civil, criminal, military, naval or ecclesiastical; as a court of law; a court of chancery; a court martial; a court of admiralty; an ecclesiastical court; court baron; etc. Hence,
7. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
8. The art of pleasing; the art of insinuation; civility; flattery; address to gain favor. Hence the phrase, to make court, to attempt to please by flattery and address.
9. In scripture, an inclosed part of the entrance into a palace or house. The tabernacle had one court; the temple, three. The first was the court of the Gentiles; the second, the court of Israel, in which the people worshiped; the third was the court of the priests, where the priests and Levites exercised their ministry. Hence places of public worship are called the courts of the Lord.
10. In the United States, a legislature consisting of two houses; as the General court of Massachusetts. The original constitution of Connecticut established a General Court in 1639.
11. A session of the legislature.
COURT, v.t.
1. In a general sense, to flatter; to endeavor to please by civilities and address; a use of the word derived from the manners of a court.
2. To woo; to solicit for marriage.
A thousand court you, though they court in vain.
3. To attempt to gain by address; to solicit; to seek; as, to court commendation or applause.
court appears in definitions for these words:
Absence Accountant Accourt Acquiescence Acquittal Act Actor Actuary Address Addressed Addressing Adjourn Adjourned Adjudge Adjudicate Adjudication Administrator Admiral Admiralty Adultery Advocate Advocation Affability Affable Affably Affirm Aid Alderman Ale-taster Allegation Almanack Ambulant Ambulatory Amend Amerce Amerced Amercement Annul Anticourt Anticourtier Antiphrasis Apocrisary Apostrophy Apparel Apparitor Appeal Appealed Appear Appearance Appellor Applicant Application Apposer Archchancellor Archdeacon Arches-court Areopagus Argue Argument Arraign Arraigning Arraignment Arrest Arret Article Assignment Assizes Attachment Attainder Attaint Attend Attendance Attentates Attention Attorney Audience Audit Auditor Augmentation Aulic Authority Autocratrix Back Bail Bailbond Bailed Bar Baron Base Base-court Basilic Battel Beadle Below Bench Bencher Bergmote Bill Bind Black-bird Blow Board Breve Brief Bureau Burghmote Butler Caravansary Case Cassation Cause Caveat Ceremonial Certificate Certiorari Chamber Chamber-practice Chamberlain Chancellor Chancery Chirographer Chivalry Christian Churlishness Circuit Citation Cite Citer City-court Civil Civility Civilly Clerk Client Cloister Co-ordinate Co-ordination Cofferer Cognizable Cognizance College Color Comity Commissary Commission Committee Commodore Common Common-council Commorant Commutation Competent Complaisance Complaisant Compurgation Concord Concurrence Concurrent Condescending Condescendingly Condescension Condescensive Confide Confront Conge Congress Conscience Conservancy Consistorial Consistory Constable Constat Constitutionality Consultation Contempt Contentious Continuance Contumacious Contumacy Coolly Copyhold Correspondency Cortes Cost Couch Council Counterfoil Counterstock County Court Court-baron Court-bred Court-breeding Court-bubble Court-day Court-dress Court-fashion Court-favor Court-house Court-lady Court-leet Court-martial Courteous Courteously Courter Courtesy Courtier Courtiery Courtliness Courtling Courtly Credentials Crier Cringe Crown-office Culprit Curiality Cursitor Curtain Curtilage Cut Dance Day Decidable Decide Decision Decisive Declare Declinator Decree Decussated Default Defaulted Defaulter Defaulting Defend Defendant Delegate Delicately Demand Demisable Depend Deponent Depose Determination Determine Did Diplomacy Diplomatic Disapprove Discourteous Discourtesy Disfavor Disgrace Dispatch Dispense Distrain District-court Divan Docket Duchy-court Early Ecclesiastic Elisor Embassador Employ Empower Envoy Equitable Equity Error Esquire Essoin Estreat Etiquet Evidence Examiner Exchequer Excuse Execution Exempt Exhibit Exigent Exigenter Exonerate Expose Extrajudicial Eyre Facile Fact Faculty Fair-spoken Fall Familiar Fare Fawn Fawning Feint Figure Filacer File Fine Flattering Flexibleness Folkmote Foreclose Forejudge Forensic Forum Franchise Frequent Friend Gain Gallant Gape Gate Gazette Glitter Go Grace Grandeur Grandjuror Greenbroom Guild Haak Hall Harangue Harbinger Haunt Hear Held High Hilary-term History Hold Honor Honorably Hundred-court Hustings Impannel Impeachment Imperial Implead Impleaded Importune Improve Inadmissibility Incapacity Incident Incivility Incompetent Indictment Informtion Ingratiate Inhibition Injunction Inmost Inn Inner Inquisition Inquisitor Inquisitorial Instance Institute Instruct Interest Interlocutory Interrogatory Intrigue Introduction Inurbanity Invocation Invoke Iodin Issue Judge Judgment Judgment-hall Judgment-seat Judicatory Judicature Judiciary Juridical Jurisdiction Jury Justice Justiceable Justiciary Justification Kingapple Laver Law Law-day Lawyer Leet Legacy-hunter Legation Libel Libelant Libeled Libeling Liberty Liquidate Litigation Locate Lord Love Love-letter Love-suit Lunet Magnificently Mainpernor Make Mandamus Mandarin Manners Manor Manse Marshal Marshalsea Martial Masquerade Mayor Messager Minister Ministerial Mistress Mittimus Moot Mortgage Mosk Necessitate Necessity Nisiprius Non-appearance Nonsuit Notary Notified Notify Novel Obeisance Obtain Officiate Open Ordinary Our Outer Outlawry Overrule Oyer Oyes Palace-court Palatine Paritor Parliament Pave Pay Peculiar Penitent Penitentiary Pension Perjure Personable Petency Petit Petition Piepoudre Plaint Play Plea Plead Pleader Pleaseman Pleaser Plenipotentiary Polite Politely Politeness Port-mote Porte Pray Precarious Precedence Prerogative-court Prerogative-office Presence Present Presentment Prisoner Privy Probate Process Proctor Produce Profert Prohibition Pronoun Pronounce Property Prosecute Prosecuted Prosecution Protection Prothonotary Protopope Provocation Provost Puisne Put Quality Quarter Querele Quirk Rabbi Ragmans-roll Reason Reasoning Recall Receive Reception Recognizance Record Recover Recovery Refer Referee Reference Referred Refine Regard Register Rehear Remand Remote Remove Report Reprimand Request Rescue Resident Resolution Respit Respond Retort Retraxit Return Returnable Returned Reverence Review Right Rise Roll Rota Rough Rule Sac Scioptics Secondary Secretary See Sennight Sensible Sentence Sequester Seraglio Sergeant Session Set Settle Sherif Shine Shire Shire-mote Signify Silentiary Sinecure Sit Sitting Soc Soft Softness Solemnly Solicitor Specht Spiritual Sportive Squire Standing Stannary Star-chamber Stationary Style Suable Submit Subpena Suit Suitor Summon Summoner Summons Supplant Surety Sustain Swanimote Swear Swearing Sweep Sycophantic Synagogue Table Tag Tales Tally Tawdry Tax Taxable Temple Temporal Tenure Term Termer Termor Testify Testy Thane Thicken Tire To Too Tourmalin Town Tramontane Triable Trial Tribunal Trior Triverbial Truth Try Turn Umbrage Unappealable Uncivil Uncivilly Uncomplaisant Unconstitutionalit Uncourtliness Uncourtly Understand Unembarrassed Unpolite Unpoliteness Unseasoned Unwooed Urbane Urbanity Urbanize Usher Vacancy Vault Venality Veracity Verdict Verge Vest Vestibule Vice-admiralty Vice-chamberlain Vicontiel View Visible Visne Votive Vouched Vouchee Wait Wardmote Wert Whore Widow-hunter Win Witness Woo Wood-mote Wooer Wooing Worth Writ Yard Year-book
Absence Accountant Accourt Acquiescence Acquittal Act Actor Actuary Address Addressed Addressing Adjourn Adjourned Adjudge Adjudicate Adjudication Administrator Admiral Admiralty Adultery Advocate Advocation Affability Affable Affably Affirm Aid Alderman Ale-taster Allegation Almanack Ambulant Ambulatory Amend Amerce Amerced Amercement Annul Anticourt Anticourtier Antiphrasis Apocrisary Apostrophy Apparel Apparitor Appeal Appealed Appear Appearance Appellor Applicant Application Apposer Archchancellor Archdeacon Arches-court Areopagus Argue Argument Arraign Arraigning Arraignment Arrest Arret Article Assignment Assizes Attachment Attainder Attaint Attend Attendance Attentates Attention Attorney Audience Audit Auditor Augmentation Aulic Authority Autocratrix Back Bail Bailbond Bailed Bar Baron Base Base-court Basilic Battel Beadle Below Bench Bencher Bergmote Bill Bind Black-bird Blow Board Breve Brief Bureau Burghmote Butler Caravansary Case Cassation Cause Caveat Ceremonial Certificate Certiorari Chamber Chamber-practice Chamberlain Chancellor Chancery Chirographer Chivalry Christian Churlishness Circuit Citation Cite Citer City-court Civil Civility Civilly Clerk Client Cloister Co-ordinate Co-ordination Cofferer Cognizable Cognizance College Color Comity Commissary Commission Committee Commodore Common Common-council Commorant Commutation Competent Complaisance Complaisant Compurgation Concord Concurrence Concurrent Condescending Condescendingly Condescension Condescensive Confide Confront Conge Congress Conscience Conservancy Consistorial Consistory Constable Constat Constitutionality Consultation Contempt Contentious Continuance Contumacious Contumacy Coolly Copyhold Correspondency Cortes Cost Couch Council Counterfoil Counterstock County Court Court-baron Court-bred Court-breeding Court-bubble Court-day Court-dress Court-fashion Court-favor Court-house Court-lady Court-leet Court-martial Courteous Courteously Courter Courtesy Courtier Courtiery Courtliness Courtling Courtly Credentials Crier Cringe Crown-office Culprit Curiality Cursitor Curtain Curtilage Cut Dance Day Decidable Decide Decision Decisive Declare Declinator Decree Decussated Default Defaulted Defaulter Defaulting Defend Defendant Delegate Delicately Demand Demisable Depend Deponent Depose Determination Determine Did Diplomacy Diplomatic Disapprove Discourteous Discourtesy Disfavor Disgrace Dispatch Dispense Distrain District-court Divan Docket Duchy-court Early Ecclesiastic Elisor Embassador Employ Empower Envoy Equitable Equity Error Esquire Essoin Estreat Etiquet Evidence Examiner Exchequer Excuse Execution Exempt Exhibit Exigent Exigenter Exonerate Expose Extrajudicial Eyre Facile Fact Faculty Fair-spoken Fall Familiar Fare Fawn Fawning Feint Figure Filacer File Fine Flattering Flexibleness Folkmote Foreclose Forejudge Forensic Forum Franchise Frequent Friend Gain Gallant Gape Gate Gazette Glitter Go Grace Grandeur Grandjuror Greenbroom Guild Haak Hall Harangue Harbinger Haunt Hear Held High Hilary-term History Hold Honor Honorably Hundred-court Hustings Impannel Impeachment Imperial Implead Impleaded Importune Improve Inadmissibility Incapacity Incident Incivility Incompetent Indictment Informtion Ingratiate Inhibition Injunction Inmost Inn Inner Inquisition Inquisitor Inquisitorial Instance Institute Instruct Interest Interlocutory Interrogatory Intrigue Introduction Inurbanity Invocation Invoke Iodin Issue Judge Judgment Judgment-hall Judgment-seat Judicatory Judicature Judiciary Juridical Jurisdiction Jury Justice Justiceable Justiciary Justification Kingapple Laver Law Law-day Lawyer Leet Legacy-hunter Legation Libel Libelant Libeled Libeling Liberty Liquidate Litigation Locate Lord Love Love-letter Love-suit Lunet Magnificently Mainpernor Make Mandamus Mandarin Manners Manor Manse Marshal Marshalsea Martial Masquerade Mayor Messager Minister Ministerial Mistress Mittimus Moot Mortgage Mosk Necessitate Necessity Nisiprius Non-appearance Nonsuit Notary Notified Notify Novel Obeisance Obtain Officiate Open Ordinary Our Outer Outlawry Overrule Oyer Oyes Palace-court Palatine Paritor Parliament Pave Pay Peculiar Penitent Penitentiary Pension Perjure Personable Petency Petit Petition Piepoudre Plaint Play Plea Plead Pleader Pleaseman Pleaser Plenipotentiary Polite Politely Politeness Port-mote Porte Pray Precarious Precedence Prerogative-court Prerogative-office Presence Present Presentment Prisoner Privy Probate Process Proctor Produce Profert Prohibition Pronoun Pronounce Property Prosecute Prosecuted Prosecution Protection Prothonotary Protopope Provocation Provost Puisne Put Quality Quarter Querele Quirk Rabbi Ragmans-roll Reason Reasoning Recall Receive Reception Recognizance Record Recover Recovery Refer Referee Reference Referred Refine Regard Register Rehear Remand Remote Remove Report Reprimand Request Rescue Resident Resolution Respit Respond Retort Retraxit Return Returnable Returned Reverence Review Right Rise Roll Rota Rough Rule Sac Scioptics Secondary Secretary See Sennight Sensible Sentence Sequester Seraglio Sergeant Session Set Settle Sherif Shine Shire Shire-mote Signify Silentiary Sinecure Sit Sitting Soc Soft Softness Solemnly Solicitor Specht Spiritual Sportive Squire Standing Stannary Star-chamber Stationary Style Suable Submit Subpena Suit Suitor Summon Summoner Summons Supplant Surety Sustain Swanimote Swear Swearing Sweep Sycophantic Synagogue Table Tag Tales Tally Tawdry Tax Taxable Temple Temporal Tenure Term Termer Termor Testify Testy Thane Thicken Tire To Too Tourmalin Town Tramontane Triable Trial Tribunal Trior Triverbial Truth Try Turn Umbrage Unappealable Uncivil Uncivilly Uncomplaisant Unconstitutionalit Uncourtliness Uncourtly Understand Unembarrassed Unpolite Unpoliteness Unseasoned Unwooed Urbane Urbanity Urbanize Usher Vacancy Vault Venality Veracity Verdict Verge Vest Vestibule Vice-admiralty Vice-chamberlain Vicontiel View Visible Visne Votive Vouched Vouchee Wait Wardmote Wert Whore Widow-hunter Win Witness Woo Wood-mote Wooer Wooing Worth Writ Yard Year-book
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