7 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Suit \Suit\, n. [OE. suite, F. suite, OF suite, sieute fr
suivre to follow OF sivre; perhaps influenced by L. secta.
See {Sue} to follow and cf {Sect}, {Suite}.]
1. The act of following or pursuing, as game; pursuit. [Obs.]
2. The act of suing; the process by which one endeavors to
gain an end or an object; an attempt to attain a certain
result; pursuit; endeavor.
Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone.
--Spenser.
3. The act of wooing in love; the solicitation of a woman in
marriage; courtship.
Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend, Till
this funereal web my labors end --Pope.
4. (Law) The attempt to gain an end by legal process; an
action or process for the recovery of a right or claim;
legal application to a court for justice; prosecution of
right before any tribunal; as a civil suit; a criminal
suit; a suit in chancery.
I arrest thee at the suit of Count Orsino --Shak.
In England the several suits, or remedial
instruments of justice, are distinguished into three
kinds -- actions personal, real, and mixed.
--Blackstone.
5. That which follows as a retinue; a company of attendants
or followers; the assembly of persons who attend upon a
prince, magistrate, or other person of distinction; --
often written suite, and pronounced sw[=e]t.
6. Things that follow in a series or succession; the
individual objects, collectively considered, which
constitute a series, as of rooms buildings, compositions,
etc.; -- often written suite, and pronounced sw[=e]t.
7. A number of things used together, and generally necessary
to be united in order to answer their purpose; a number of
things ordinarily classed or used together; a set as a
suit of curtains; a suit of armor; a suit of clothes.
``Two rogues in buckram suits.'' --Shak.
8. (Playing Cards) One of the four sets of cards which
constitute a pack; -- each set consisting of thirteen
cards bearing a particular emblem, as hearts, spades,
cubs, or diamonds.
To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort Her mingled
suits and sequences. --Cowper.
9. Regular order succession. [Obs.]
Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit
of weather comes again --Bacon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Suit \Suit\, v. i.
To agree; to accord; to be fitted; to correspond; -- usually
followed by with or to
The place itself was suiting to his care --Dryden.
Give me not an office That suits with me so ill.
--Addison.
Syn: To agree; accord; comport; tally; correspond; match;
answer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Suit \Suit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suited}; p. pr & vb n.
{Suiting}.]
1. To fit to adapt; to make proper or suitable; as to suit
the action to the word --Shak.
2. To be fitted to to accord with to become to befit.
Ill suits his cloth the praise of railing well
--Dryden.
Raise her notes to that sublime degree Which suits
song of piety and thee. --Prior.
3. To dress; to clothe. [Obs.]
So went he suited to his watery tomb. --Shak.
4. To please; to make content; as he is well suited with his
place to suit one's taste.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Possessory \Pos*sess"o*ry\, a. [L. possessorius: cf F.
possessoire.]
Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right
of the nature of possession; as a possessory interest; a
possessory lord.
{Possessory action} or {suit} (Law), an action to regain or
obtain possession of something See under {Petitory}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
suit
n 1: a set of garments for outerwear all of the same fabric and
color; "they buried him in his best suit" [syn: {suit of
clothes}]
2: (law) a comprehensive term for any proceeding in a court of
law whereby an individual seeks a legal remedy; "the
family brought suit against the landlord" [syn: {lawsuit},
{case}, {cause}, {causa}]
3: a man's courting of a woman; seeking the affections of a
woman (usually with the hope of marriage); "its was a
brief and intense courtship" [syn: {courtship}, {wooing},
{courting}]
4: a petition or appeal made to a person of superior status or
rank [syn: {suing}]
5: any of four sets of 13 cards in a pack; each suit has its
own symbol and color; "a flush is five cards in the same
suit"; "in bridge you must follow suit"; "what suit is
trumps?"
v 1: be agreeable or acceptable to "This suits my needs" [syn: {accommodate},
{fit}]
2: be agreeable or acceptable; "This time suits me"
3: accord or comport with [syn: {befit}, {beseem}]
4: enhance the appearance of: "Mourning becomes Electra"; "This
behavior doesn't suit you!" [syn: {become}]
From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
suit n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often
worn by non-hackers. Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation
device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain. It is
thought that this explains much about the behavior of suit-wearers.
Compare {droid}. 2. A person who habitually wears suits, as distinct
from a techie or hacker. See {pointy-haired}, {burble}, {management},
{Stupids}, {SNAFU principle}, {PHB}, and {brain-damaged}.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
suit
1. Ugly and uncomfortable "business clothing" often worn by
non-hackers. Invariably worn with a "tie", a strangulation
device that partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain.
It is thought that this explains much about the behaviour of
suit-wearers.
2. A person who habitually wears suits, as distinct from a
techie or hacker.
See {loser}, {burble}, {management}, {Stupids}, {SNAFU
principle}, and {brain-damaged}.
[{Jargon File}]
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