Word Finder - court

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An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different buildings; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.

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The girls were playing in the court.

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(social) Royal society.

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Attention directed to a person in power; behaviour designed to gain favor; politeness of manner; civility towards someone

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The administration of law.

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A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games

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The local sports club has six tennis courts and two squash courts.

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To seek to achieve or win.

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He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.

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To risk (a consequence, usually negative).

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He courted controversy with his frank speeches.

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To try to win a commitment to marry from.

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To engage in behavior leading to mating.

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The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance.

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To attempt to attract.

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To attempt to gain alliance with.

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To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.

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She's had a few beaus come courting.

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• romance
• solicit

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To engage in courtship behavior.

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In this season, you can see many animals courting.

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To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.

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• charm
• entrance

You'll have to report to court tomorrow morning.

My client's in court out here and I'm keeping an eye on her assets.

We have a police force and a court system to apply the laws equally to all.

See how the men, young and old, pay court to her.

He tried to get her to seek a court order against Shipton if she was in fear of him, or, at the very least talk to an attorney.

His court duties were presumably over now that the case was settled.

You're going to court.

During the week before Christmas, Martha had spent an overnight at Bird Song when Janet was forced to report to court in Grand Junction, on some charges she, thankfully, did not detail to the Deans.

He'd never seen art of this kind, only the statues of his father's court and the multi-hued strands used to decorate homes.

I have court; I'll see you around three.

I drove south toward town on the West Surry Road but instead of following Court Street, turned back north west on the Old Walpole to Howie's home.

Surely that doesn't have anything to do with whatever the court fight is about.

Fred was frightened enough of the court system already.

But so did a few others at court.

There followed another band after this, which was called the Royal Court Band, because the members all lived in the palace.

The sheriff's office was located only a few blocks east of Bird Song, behind the County Court House, where Fred O'Connor would report for jury duty the following Tuesday.

I cannot.  My Sight has been stunted, no doubt as punishment for my tampering in Fate's court.

Ashley asked as they reached the food court.

I was brought before a court of investigation composed of the teachers and officers of the Institution, and Miss Sullivan was asked to leave me.

Connor had started back at the office and returned home from court.

She ate a chicken salad in relative peace at the mall's food court.

By his exposition of the political history of the kingdom, based on a study of its laws and institutions and of the legal conflicts between the state and the court of Rome, Pietro Giannone was the initiator of what has been since known as civil history.

The court of chancery is also an offshoot of the curia regis.

The conception of the kingdom as a fief not only subjected it to the jurisdiction of the high court; it involved the more disastrous result that the kingdom, like other fiefs, might be carried by an heiress to her husband; and the proximate causes of the collapse of the kingdom in 1187 depend on this fact and the dissensions which it occasioned.

Two great central courts sat in Jerusalem to do justice - the high court of the nobles, and the court of burgesses for the rest of the Franks.

The members were called "justices," and in the king's absence the chief justiciar presided over the court.

Thus the court of king's bench (curia regis de banco) was founded, and the foundation of the court of common pleas was provided for in one of the articles of Magna Carta.

An Ursuline convent, built in 1764, serves as hotel de ville and law court, and a church of the 14th century is used as a market.

He then entered into fresh intrigues with the court of Spain, acting in concert with the marchioness of Verneuil and her father d'Entragues.

Angouleme is the seat of a bishop, a prefect, and a court of assizes.

The breach between the queen's party and Albany's had widened, and the queen's advisers had begun an intrigue with England, to the end that the royal widow and her young son should be removed to Henry's court.

The Senate elects a president, confirms or rejects the nominations of the governor, and acts as a court of impeachment for the trial of public officers, besides sharing in legislative functions.

No person holding a lucrative office under the state or the United States, no salaried officer of a railroad company, and no officer of any court of record is eligible for membership in either house.

The judicial power is vested in the Supreme Court of Appeals, the Circuit courts, such inferior courts as may be established, county courts, the powers and duties of which are, however, chiefly police and fiscal, and in justices of the peace.

The judicial powers of the county court are confined to probate, the appointment of executors, administrators and other personal representatives, and the settlement of their accounts, matters relating to apprentices and to contested elections for county and district officers.

The county court, consisting of three commissioners elected for six years but with terms so arranged that one retires every two years, is the police and fiscal authority.

The limits of the township, originally called West Hoosac, were determined by a committee of the General Court of Massachusetts in 1749, and two or three years later the village was laid out.

This last was the belief of the Protestant Reformers, for whom the Bible was in matters of doctrine the ultimate court of appeal.

He was ordained at Zurich, and from him Court himself received ordination.

He went to Vienna and in 1809 was appointed imperial court secretary at the headquarters of the archduke Charles.

The judges at Babylon seem to have formed a superior court to those of provincial towns, but a defendant might elect to answer the charge before the local court and refuse to plead at Babylon.

The Constitutions of Clarendon, in 1164, made the appeal from the court of the archdeacon lie to the court of the bishop.

Other officers are the clerk of the county court, elected for six years, the sheriff, who also acts as tax-collector and treasurer, the prosecuting attorney, one or two assessors, the surveyor of lands and the superintendent of free schools, all elected for the term of four years; the sheriff may not serve two consecutive full terms. In addition there are boards appointed or elected by various authorities and charged with specific duties.

The question of the constitutionality of the formation of the new state was brought before the Supreme Court of the United States in the following manner.

The Virginia legislature repealed the act of cession and in 1866 brought suit against West Virginia asking the court to declare the counties a part of Virginia.

The Supreme Court in 1871 decided in favour of West Virginia, and there has been no further question.

In 1906 Virginia entered suit in the U.S. Supreme Court to compel West Virginia to assume a portion of the debt.

But it is more likely, as suggested by Richard Chandler (Life of Waynflete, 1811), that it was some Yorkist attack on him in progress in the papal court, to meet which he appointed next day 19 proctors to act for him.

Its constitutional origin was analogous to that of the star chamber and the court of requests.

The latter, in fact, was a minor court of equity attached to the lord privy seal as the court of chancery was to the chancellor.