accost | approach, make up to, pay court to |
alleged | cited in court, proposed, offered |
answer | interrogation, cross-examination, appearance in court, trial |
attend | serve at court, wait on royalty |
base-court | [of a castle] lower courtyard, servants' courtyard |
bench | governing body, court of justice |
carpet | for exploits ‘on the carpet’ [relating to the court, appropriate to a drawing room] not ‘in the field’ |
cause | court case, legal action, matter before the court |
chace | [tennis] forfeited point; also: pursuit |
chase | [tennis] forfeited point; also: pursuit |
consistory | ecclesiastical court |
court | care, custody, minding |
court | assembly, court occasion |
court | pay court, play the suitor [to] |
court holy-water | gracious but empty promises, courtly flattery |
court of guard | guard-house, guard-room |
court-cupboard | sideboard, cabinet |
court-hand | legal style of handwriting |
courtly | belonging to the court, connected with the court |
courtship | court life, courtliness; also: wooing, courting |
crier | officer who makes announcements in a court of law |
empannel | enrol, oblige to appear in a court |
fe, fe | Fie, fie, fie, fie, faith, it's very hot. I'm going to watch the great business at court' |
follow | seek after, pursue, strive for, court |
forthcoming | producable in court, available as evidence / as a witness |
hair | [product stuffed with hair] tennis-ball |
hazard | [royal tennis] opening in a court where a ball is unplayable [and thus a winning point is scored] |
impannel | enrol, oblige to appear in a court |
law | in court, with legal proceedings |
leet | local court of justice, manorial court |
minstrelsy | court singer |
missing | absence, disappearance, non-attendance [at court] |
monarcho | [pron: 'monahrkoh] vain hanger-on at court, pretentious absurdity |
mute | dumb servant [as in a Turkish court] |
paritor | summoning officer for an ecclesiastical court |
precept | writ, warrant, court order |
premise | (plural) evidence, circumstances admitted in court |
removedness | absence [from court], non-attendance |
session, sessions | judicial assembly, trial, court |
set | [cards, tennis] series of games |
solicit | court, chase after, pursue |
spare | be free [at court], not needed |
Star-chamber | supreme court of justice |
state | persons of rank, nobility, court, council of state |
sue | pay court, act as a suitor |
suit | court attendance, personal retinue |
summoner | court-officer who ensures attendance |
tipstaff | court officer |