pedantic style

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• style — styleless, adj. stylelessness, n. stylelike, adj. /stuyl/, n., v. styled, styling. n. 1. a particular kind, sort, or type, as with reference to form, appearance, or character: the baroque style; The style of the house was too austere for their… …   Universalium

• Style sheet (web development) — Web style sheets are a form of separation of presentation and content for web design in which the markup (i.e., HTML or XHTML) of a webpage contains the page s semantic content and structure, but does not define its visual layout (style). Instead …   Wikipedia

• Sheraton style — Sheraton is a late 18th century neoclassical English furniture style, in vogue ca 1785 1800, that was coined by 19th century collectors and dealers to credit furniture designer Thomas Sheraton, born in Stockton on Tees, England in 1751 and whose… …   Wikipedia

• Lancelot Andrewes — Infobox Saint name=Lancelot Andrewes birth date=1555 death date=25 September 1626 feast day=25 September venerated in=Anglican Communion imagesize= caption= birth place=Barking, London death place=Southwark titles= beatified date= beatified place …   Wikipedia

• stick out — *bulge, jut, protuberate, protrude, project, overhang, beetle Analogous words: *extend, prolong, elongate, lengthen: *expand, swell, distend: obtrude (see INTRUDE) stiff adj Stiff, rigid, inflexible, tense, stark, wooden can mean so firm, hard,… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• The Dunciad — Alexander Pope The Dunciad /ˈd …   Wikipedia

• Derogatory use of "Byzantine" — The term Byzantine was first applied to the eastern Roman Empire by historians in the 16th century, decades after the Fall of Constantinople to the forces of Mehmed II of the Ottoman Empire on 29 May, 1453. The term is used to describe any work,… …   Wikipedia

• Diane Middlebrook — Her Husband: Ted Hughes Sylvia Plath, a Marriage by Diane Middlebrook Born 16 April 1939 Pocatello, Idaho, United States Died 15 December 2007 (age 68) San Francis …   Wikipedia

• URQUHART, SIR THOMAS —    of Cromarty, a cavalier and supporter of Charles I., and a great enemy of the Covenanters in Scotland; travelled much, and acquired a mass of miscellaneous knowledge, which he was fain to display and did display in a most pedantic style; posed …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

• Europe, history of — Introduction       history of European peoples and cultures from prehistoric times to the present. Europe is a more ambiguous term than most geographic expressions. Its etymology is doubtful, as is the physical extent of the area it designates.… …   Universalium

• education — /ej oo kay sheuhn/, n. 1. the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. 2. the act or process of… …   Universalium