a. Also stilar. [f. mod.L. type stylāris, f. stylus: see STYLE sb. and -AR.]

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  † 1.  Pertaining to the ‘style’ or gnomon of a dial. Obs.

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1614.  E. Wright, Dialling, xvi. E 2. Draw a right line out of the intersection of the line of contingence, and substilar perpendicularly ouerthwart the stilar line.

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1668.  Moxon, Mech. Dyalling, 12. Draw a Line from the Center through that number of Degrees for the Stilar Line.

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1836.  Smart.

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  † 2.  Pertaining to (literary) style. Obs.

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1814.  Sporting Mag., XLIV. 191. Stylar analogy between the preface and the text.

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  3.  ‘Having the character of or pertaining to a style for writing’ (Cent. Dict., 1891).

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