stylagalmaIc

[Gr. stylos a pillar, and IMG:content-0463.png:[blocks in formation] author, or of each body of authors, allied as belonging to the same school, country, or epoch. "Though an author's plan should be faultle , and his bi extile or leap years." The difference between the Old and New Styles was progre ive. Up to 1699 it was only ten days, after 1700 it was eleven, and after 1800 twelve days. The year 1751 had no January, February, March 1-24, and September had only nineteen days. ( Nic olas: Chron. of Hist.) 3. Surg .: A pointed surgical instrument; a probe. For the difference between style and diction , see DICTION. Style of a court: Law : The practice observed by any court in its way of proceeding.