Suit
\\Suit\\,
Noun
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[=e]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[=e]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.
``Two rogues in buckram suits.'' --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.
{Out of suits}, having no correspondence. [Obs.] --Shak.
{Suit and service} (Feudal Law), the duty of feudatories to
attend the courts of their lords or superiors in time of
peace, and in war to follow them and do military service;
-- called also {suit service}. --Blackstone.
{Suit broker}, one who made a trade of obtaining the suits of
petitioners at court. [Obs.]
{Suit court} (O. Eng. Law), the court in which tenants owe
attendance to their lord.
{Suit covenant} (O. Eng. Law), a covenant to sue at a certain
court.
{Suit custom} (Law), a service which is owed from time
immemorial.
{Suit service}. (Feudal Law) See {Suit and service}, above.
{To bring suit}. (Law)
(a) To bring secta, followers or witnesses, to prove the
plaintiff's demand. [Obs.]
(b) In modern usage, to institute an action.
{To follow suit}. (Card Playing) See under {Follow}, v. t.
Verb
- imp & p. p: suited
- p. pr & vb. n: suiting
Transitive
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.
Intransitive
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.
