7. The session of a judicial assembly.
8. Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
9. A place arranged for playing the game of tennis; also, one of the
divisions of a tennis court. Christian court, the English
ecclesiastical courts in the aggregate, or any one of them.
— Court breeding, education acquired at court.
— Court card. Same as Coat card.
— Court circular, one or more paragraphs of news respecting the
sovereign and the royal family, together with the proceedings or
movements of the court generally, supplied to the newspapers by an
officer specially charged with such duty. [Eng.] Edwards.
— Court day, a day on which a court sits to administer justice.
— Court dress, the dress prescribed for appearance at the court of
a sovereign.
— Court fool, a buffoon or jester, formerly kept by princes and
nobles for their amusement.
— Court guide, a directory of the names and adresses of the
nobility and gentry in a town.
— Court hand, the hand or manner of writing used in records and
judicial proceedings. Shak.
— Court lands (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, — that is, for
the use of the lord and his family.
— Court marshal, one who acts as marshal for a court.
— Court party, a party attached to the court.
— Court rolls, the records of a court. SeeRoll.
— Court in banc, or Court in bank, The full court sitting at its
regular terms for the hearing of arguments upon questions of law, as
distinguished from a sitting at nisi prius.
— Court of Arches, audience, etc. See under Arches, Audience, etc.
— Court of Chancery. See Chancery, n.
— Court of Common pleas. (Law) See Common pleas, under Common.
— Court of Equity. See under Equity, and Chancery.
— Court of Inquiry (Mil.) , a court appointed to inquire into and
report on some military matter, as the conduct of an officer.
— Court of St. James, the usual designation of the British Court; -
- so called from the old palace of St. James, which is used for the
royal receptions, levees, and drawing-rooms.
— The court of the Lord, the temple at Jerusalem; hence, a church,
or Christian house of worship.
— General Court, the legislature of a State; — so called from
having had, in the colonial days, judical power; as, the General
Court of Massachusetts. [U.S.] — To pay one's court, to seek to gain
favor by attentions. "Alcibiades was assiduous in paying his court to
Tissaphernes." Jowett.
— To put out of court, to refuse further judicial hearing.
COURT
Court, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Courted; p. pr. & vb. n. Courting.]
1. To endeavor to gain the favor of by attention or flattery; to try to ingratiate one's self with. By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted. Macualay.
2. To endeavor to gain the affections of; to seek in marriage; to woo. If either of you both love Katharina . . . leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure. Shak.
3. To attempt to gain; to solicit; to seek.
They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdem.
Prescott.
Guilt and misery . . . court privacy and silitude. De Quincey.
4. To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract. A well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge. Tennyson.
COURT
Court, v. i.
1. To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.