Definition of court

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Court (n.) Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.

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Outcourt :: Outcourt (n.) An outer or exterior court.
Discourteous :: Discourteous (a.) Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous.
Fault :: Fault (n.) Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To discuss, defend, and attempt to maintain by arguments or reasons presented to a tribunal or person having uthority to determine; to argue at the bar; as, to plead a cause before a court or jury..
Motion :: Motion (n.) An application made to a court or judge orally in open court. Its object is to obtain an order or rule directing some act to be done in favor of the applicant.
Commodore :: Commodore (n.) An officer who ranks next above a captain; sometimes, by courtesy, the senior captain of a squadron. The rank of commodore corresponds with that of brigadier general in the army..
Curia :: Curia (n.) Any court of justice.
Greencloth :: Greencloth (n.) A board or court of justice formerly held in the counting house of the British sovereign's household, composed of the lord steward and his officers, and having cognizance of matters of justice in the household, with power to correct offenders and keep the peace within the verge of the palace, which extends two hundred yards beyond the gates..
Submit :: Submit (v. t.) To leave or commit to the discretion or judgment of another or others; to refer; as, to submit a controversy to arbitrators; to submit a question to the court; -- often followed by a dependent proposition as the object..
Comply :: Comply (v. i.) To be ceremoniously courteous; to make one's compliments.
Folkmoter :: Folkmoter (n.) One who takes part in a folkmote, or local court..
Palsgrave :: Palsgrave (n.) A count or earl who presided in the domestic court, and had the superintendence, of a royal household in Germany..
Auditor :: Auditor (a.) One who hears judicially, as in an audience court..
Impound :: Impound (v. t.) To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping..
Dispunct :: Dispunct (a.) Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous.
Decerniture :: Decerniture (n.) A decree or sentence of a court.
Essoin :: Essoin (n.) To excuse for nonappearance in court.
Somner :: Somner (n.) A summoner; esp., one who summons to an ecclesiastical court..
Vault :: Vault (v. t.) To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court..
Knee :: Knee (n.) A bending of the knee, as in respect or courtesy..
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