Word Meanings - PLEADINGLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a pleading manner.

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• PLEADINGS
  The mutual pleas and replies of the plaintiff and defendant, or written statements of the parties in support of their claims, proceeding from the declaration of the plaintiff, until issue is joined, and the question made to rest on some
• PLEADINGLY
  In a pleading manner.
• PLEAD
  To present an answer, by allegation of fact, to the declaration of a plaintiff; to deny the plaintiff's declaration and demand, or to allege facts which show that ought not to recover in the suit; in a less strict sense, to make an allegation of
• PLEADER
  One who draws up or forms pleas; the draughtsman of pleas or pleadings in the widest sense; as, a special pleader. (more info) 1. One who pleads; one who argues for or against; an advotate. So fair a pleader any cause may gain. Dryden.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• 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
• PLEADING
  The act of advocating, defending, or supporting, a cause by arguments.
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• 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
• PLEADABLE
  Capable of being pleaded; capable of being alleged in proof, defense, or vindication; as, a right or privilege pleadable at law. Dryden.
• 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
• 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.
• COUNTERPLEAD
  To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• ENTERPLEAD
  See INTERPLEAD
• IMPLEAD
  To institute and prosecute a suit against, in court; to sue or prosecute at law; hence, to accuse; to impeach.
• UPLEAD
  To lead upward.
• MISPLEAD
  To err in pleading.
• INTERPLEAD
  To plead against each other, or go to trial between themselves,
• REPLEADER
  A second pleading, or course of pleadings; also, the right of pleading again. Whenever a repleader is granted, the pleadings must begin de novo. Blackstone.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• INTERPLEADER
  A proceeding devised to enable a person, of whom the same debt, duty, or thing is claimed adversely by two or more parties, to compel them to litigate the right or title between themselves, and thereby to relieve himself from the suits which they
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• UNPLEADED
  1. Not used as a plea; not urged; as, an unpleaded excuse. 2. Not supported by pleas; undefended; as, an unpleaded suit.