Word Meanings - STARCHAMBER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ancient high court exercising jurisdiction in certain cases, mainly criminal, which sat without the intervention of a jury. It consisted of the king's council, or of the privy council only with the addition of certain judges. It could proceed on mere rumor or examine witnesses; it could apply torture. It was abolished by the Long Parliament in 1641. Encyc. Brit.

• Encyclic
  Alt. of Encyclical
• Exercise
  The act of exercising; a setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use; habitual activity; occupation, in general; practice.
• Procedendo
  A writ by which a cause which has been removed on insufficient grounds from an inferior to a superior court by certiorari, or otherwise, is sent down again to the same court, to be proceeded in there.
• Procerity
  Height of stature; tallness.
• Ancienty
  Age; antiquity.
• Tortured
  of Torture
• Consistorial
  Of or pertaining to a consistory.
• COURTMARTIAL
  A court consisting of military or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.
• Courteous
  Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.
• Courtliness
  The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.
• Encyclical
  Sent to many persons or places; intended for many, or for a whole order of men; general; circular; as, an encyclical letter of a council, of a bishop, or the pope.
• Exercised
  of Exercise
• Procedure
  The act or manner of proceeding or moving forward; progress; process; operation; conduct.
• Applying
  of Apply
• Torturer
  One who tortures; a tormentor.
• Consistorian
  Pertaining to a Presbyterian consistory; -- a contemptuous term of 17th century controversy.
• COURTPLASTER
  Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.
• Courteously
  In a courteous manner.
• Courtling
  A sycophantic courtier.

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