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In a manner to please nice taste; with elegance; with due symmetry; richly.

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  • PLEASER
    One who pleases or gratifies.
  • MANNERIST
    One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
  • TASTE
    by the touch, to try, to taste, LL. taxitare, fr. L. taxare 1. To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. Chapman. Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find. Chaucer. 2. To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish
  • MANNERISM
    Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
  • TASTER
    One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora. (more info) 1. One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food
  • TASTELESS
    1. Having no taste; insipid; flat; as, tasteless fruit. 2. Destitute of the sense of taste; or of good taste; as, a tasteless age. Orrery. 3. Not in accordance with good taste; as, a tasteless arrangement of drapery. -- Taste"less*ly,
  • PLEASED
    Experiencing pleasure. -- Pleas"ed*ly, adv. -- Pleas"ed*ness, n.
  • PLEASEMAN
    An officious person who courts favor servilely; a pickthank. Shak.
  • ELEGANCE; ELEGANCY
    1. The state or quality of being elegant; beauty as resulting from choice qualities and the complete absence of what deforms or impresses unpleasantly; grace given by art or practice; fine polish; refinement; -- said of manners, language, style,
  • MANNERLINESS
    The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
  • SYMMETRY
    The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical. Note: Bilateral symmetry, or
  • PLEASE
    1. To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy. I pray to God that it may plesen you. Chaucer. What next I bring shall please thee, be assured. Milton. 2. To have or take
  • MANNERED
    1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
  • MANNER
    manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
  • TASTEFUL
    1. Having a high relish; savory. "Tasteful herbs." Pope. 2. Having or exhibiting good taste; in accordance with good taste; tasty; as, a tasteful drapery. -- Taste"ful*ly, adv. -- Taste"ful*ness, n.
  • RICHLY
    In a rich manner.
  • MANNERCHOR
    A German men's chorus or singing club.
  • MANNERLY
    Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
  • ASYMMETRY
    Incommensurability. Barrow. (more info) 1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
  • UNMANNERLY
    Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
  • OVERPLEASE
    To please excessively.
  • ATTASTE
    To taste or cause to taste. Chaucer.
  • DISSYMMETRY
    Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.
  • PSEUDO-SYMMETRY
    A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.
  • DISTASTEFUL
    1. Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome. 2. Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; as, a distasteful truth. Distasteful answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. Milton. 3. Manifesting distaste or
  • FORETASTE
    A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation.
  • ALETASTER
    See ALECONNER
  • TIMEPLEASER
    One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.
  • CATASTERISM
    A placing among the stars; a catalogue of stars. The catasterisms of Eratosthenes. Whewell.
  • OVERMANNER
    In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
  • AFTERTASTE
    A taste which remains in the mouth after eating or drinking.
  • POETASTER
    An inferior rhymer, or writer of verses; a dabbler in poetic art. The talk of forgotten poetasters. Macaulay.
  • MEN-PLEASER
    One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.

 

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