Suit \Suit\ (s[=u]t), n. [OE. suite, F. suite, OF. suite, sieute, fr. suivre to follow, OF. sivre; perhaps influenced by L. secta. See {Sue} to follow, and cf. {Sect}, {Suite}.] 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; a three-piece business suit. ``Two rogues in buckram suits.'' --Shak. [1913 Webster +PJC]
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, clubs, or diamonds; also, the members of each such suit held by a player in certain games, such as bridge; as, hearts were her long suit.
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.
10. Hence: (derived from def 7) Someone who dresses in a business suit, as contrasted with more informal attire; specifically, a person, such as business executive, or government official, who is apt to view a situation formalistically, bureaucratically, or according to formal procedural criteria; -- used derogatively for one who is inflexible, esp. when a more humanistic or imaginative approach would be appropriate.
{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}. (a) (Card Playing) See under {Follow}, v. t. (b) To mimic the action of another person; to perform an action similar to what has preceded; as, when she walked in, John left the room and his wife followed suit.
{long suit} (a) (Card Playing) the suit[8] of which a player has the largest number of cards in his hand; as, his long suit was clubs, but his partner insisted on making hearts trumps.. Hence: [fig.] that quality or capability which is a person's best asset; as, we could see from the mess in his room that neatness was not his long suit.
{strong suit} same as {long suit}, (b) . ``I think our strong suit is that we can score from both the perimeter and the post.'' --Bill Disbrow (basketball coach) 1998. ``Rigid ideological consistency has never been a strong suit of the Whole Earth Catalogue.'' --Bruce Sterling (The Hacker Crackdown, 1994) [1913 Webster +PJC]
Suit \Suit\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Suited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Suiting}.] 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.
Suit \Suit\, v. i. 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.
Prosecutors, over Buie's objection, used the running suit as evidence at his trial.
Bond prices, which had been up in early trading, fell in response to the purchasing managers report, and the stock market followed suit.
The federal government has alleged in a civil suit that the California thrift was used by Mr. Keating and the others as a cash cow for their personal gain.
The suit accuses 23 U.S. and foreign banks of antitrust, banking and other violations after they failed to come to terms on restructuring loans to the Hunt companies.
But they have filed a suit against Keating and his associates alleging that fraud, racketeering and a variety of other illegal acts were directly responsible for losses of $1.1 billion.
National Gay Rights Advocates, a California public interest law firm, has filed a class action suit on behalf of AIDS patients against the Department of Health and Human Services, FDA and National Institutes of Health.
Hasenfus, the sole survivor, was joined in the suit by the family of co-pilot Wallace Sawyer Jr., who was killed in the crash.
The suit doesn't identify the other brokerage firms.
Rose Cipollone was so hooked on cigarettes that she smoked a pack while in labor with her first child, even though she had tried to quit, an addiction expert testified in support of her family's liability suit.
Earlier this month, three Bonneville investors filed a suit seeking class action status, charging Portland General with various federal securities law violations that the investors say led to Bonneville's financial collapse.
Marvin Maurice Wells, whose 1986 capital murder trial was halted when prosecutors found the right man, last year lost his $6.5 million federal suit against the police.
The Viacom lawsuit claimed that the agreement, which the suit called "a form of extortion known as greenmail," constituted one the illegal acts needed for establishing a pattern of racketeering under that law.
"It's a landmark decision because discrimination against Hispanics in this society is pervasive," said Antonio Silva, co-counsel for the agents in the class action suit.
Club president A. Sanford Miles, who called the suit a "David and Goliath" conflict, said money was not the issue in the lawsuit.
In its suit, Damon seeks to enjoin the American Magnetics group from acquiring any Damon stock and to require the group to dispose of its current 10.75% stake in Damon.
Norton said it would "vigorously oppose" the BTR suit, and filed its own suit in federal court in Boston seeking to enjoin BTR's tender offer and to stop BTR from soliciting proxies.
Norton said it would "vigorously oppose" the BTR suit, and filed its own suit in federal court in Boston seeking to enjoin BTR's tender offer and to stop BTR from soliciting proxies.
In the football battle, the bickering sides will face off again soon in a Minneapolis federal court over the union's antitrust suit.
"If he lost it all in the futures market, it will be very difficult to pay back," said John Morland, vice president and deputy general counsel of Freddie Mac, which has initiated a civil suit in an effort to recover the money.
Ignatenko quoted Gorbachev as saying his next meeting with John Paul would "perhaps, or probably, be in the USSR." Gorbachev was accompanied to the Vatican by his wife Raisa, who wore a gray suit.
Bronson Methodist Hospital in Kalamazoo filed suit last month, claiming Sarabond-mortared brickwork on a service-elevator tower built in the early 1970s was deteriorating.
Ms. Norwood said that Southland has been "out of the dairy business for three years" and "none of the company's senior management or 7-Eleven stores" have been named in any of the prosecutions or the suit.
And recently, Coastal won a $549 million judgment from an Occidental Petroleum Corp. unit in a suit charging that the unit tried to monopolize certain natural gas markets.
Vehicle repair worldwide generates annual sales of about Pounds 2bn. As manufacturers of vehicles, televisions sets, video recorders, and consumer durables 'went global' in the 1980s, their suppliers - paintmakers included - were forced to follow suit.
The suit was filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York, just one week after Daimler-Benz announced it had signed a preliminary agreement with UTC to allow their jet engine divisions to operate as a single company on certain ventures.
The civil suit accused the utility of violating the federal Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, or RICO.
Other unions will doubtless follow suit, as they did last week when they walked out of a national negotiating meeting at the Justice Ministry. After last week's setback, the French government has been trying to break the dispute area by area.
The result, according to the suit, was the payment of approximately $61 million to the Northview's shareholders.
In the pending suit, the company alleged that the union, by using a corporate campaign, isn't bargaining in good faith.
The suit said the time involved in getting such a waiver, sometimes three weeks or more, is too long.