'Suit : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: 'Suit	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for 'Suit
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[emac]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[emac]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. [bd]Two rogues in buckram suits.[b8] --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 \Possess"ory\, 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 Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 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 (15Feb98) [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}] (1998-07-01)