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_style_

Verb.

Pronunciation: staɪl.

Etymology: from the English noun STYLE, and this one from Latin stilus (= a stake or pale; pointed instrument for writing; style).

Third-person singular simple present: she (he) styles.

Preterite tense, preterite participle: styled.

Present participle: styling.

It is dated from the end of 1500.

Transitively: 1. To designate (something or some one) with a style, title, predicate, or denomination; this is, to assign a verbal distinction to (an animated being or a thing); to refer to (her, him or it) by a name, style, or predicate.

Synonyms: to name, denominate, term, entitle, characterize, term.

Translation: denominar, in Spanish; denominare, in Italian; dénommer, in French. Though Spanish estilar, French styler, and Italian stilare, are etymologically identical, they differ in their signification from the English verb.

-) Particular syntax: the predicate complement of the verb is now construed without a preceding preposition, where, formerly, was preceded by the preposition with or for:

Vivian could not fail to be delighted with this beautiful work of art, for such indeed it should be styled.

Benjamin Disraeli… Vivian Grey

 […] I am by birth a Saxon, and not Norman as you have hitherto styled me.

Pierce Egan… Robin Hood and Little John

[…] in Bordeaux he was simply called Monsieur Rosa, whilst in the neighbourhood of his castle he was styled Monsieur le Marquis.

Catherine Crowe… Susan Hopley

In the inscriptions, they are styled James IlL, Charles III, and Henry IX, kings of England.

Benjamin Silliman… A visit to Europe

A great deal of “desultory conversation,” as it is styled, relative to the great topic of debate, now occurred.

Benjamin Disraeli… Vivian Grey

I have no recollection that we were in any imminent danger at anytime, and the voyage might have been styled a prosperous one.

Frederick Marryat… Travels and Adventures…

When the dissolved particles are thus recoverable again in an unaltered state, chemically considered, their solution may be styled simple.

Campbell Morfit… Chemical… manipulations

The Spaniards, satisfied with what they had already witnessed, refused to comply with his request, but ever afterwards held their coats of mail in little esteem, and contemptuously styled them “Dutch Holland.”

George Hansard… The book of archery

We thought to have had wine at a more reasonable rate this session; but we languish still under the want of the "universal panacea," or as a great physician styled it, " that to the body which manure is to trees."

The New Monthly Magazine, vol. 99

-) Reflexively:

“[…] she left you, […] for some one who styled himself a gentleman, Ned?”

Harrison Ainsworth… Mervyn Clitheroe

Mrs. Ellis had no scruples on this subject, and had styled herself an affectionate friend.

Esther Copley… Early friendships

Frederic looked up, and found him to be a person whom he had occasionally seen in the streets of New-Orleans, and of whom, he had been told, little was known except that he styled himself Colonel Granby, of the British army.

Jane Mcintosh… Conquest and self-conquest

Timber and stone were furnished, and a number of hands were employed, under the direction of the self-styled engineer, in constructing the ponderous apparatus, which was erected on a solid platform of masonry.

H. Prescott… History of the conquest of Mexico

[…] as he recollected the false intelligence which Mr. Manvers had received respecting Arthur’s meeting with the self-styled Captain Granby, it occurred to him that probably the report of his fracas with that veracious personage had been equally incorrect.

Jane Mcintosh… Conquest and self-conquest

2. Rare: to pierce (something) with a stylet.

3. To make, construe, compose, prepare, contrive, arrange, etc. (something) in a particular style. In particular: to dress (hair) in a fashionable style

Anne felt on top of the world as she looked around the suite at the Hilton. Her hair had been styled by Sassoon […] A trace of French perfume was detectable in the air around her.

Ken Follett… The Modigliani Scandal

They meet in a bar in 1974, when Anne is eighteen and her middlebrown hair shorter, more carefully styled.

Kelly Braffet… Last Seen Leaving

[…] The Call of Cthulhu is almost an experimental work, a silent black-and-white film that is styled after the films of the 1920s.

Winston Dixon… A history of horror

[I] discovered that my dream house was styled after an Italian villa, with tall windows, an expansive porch […]

Shelly Reuben… Weeping

English words derived from Latin stilus: style (noun), styled, styleless, styler, stylet, styliferous, styliform, styline, styling, stylish, stylishly, stylishness, stylism, stylist, hair-stylist, stylistic, stylistical, stylistically, stylistician, stylize, stylization, stylograph, stylographic, stylographical, stylographically, styloid, cyclostyle.