Thenceforth the suit of earthly conquest shone. Spenser.

Rebate your loves, each rival suit suspend,
Till this funereal web my labors end. Pope.

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.

To deal and shuffle, to divide and sort
Her mingled suits and sequences. Cowper.

Every five and thirty years the same kind and suit of weather comes again. Bacon.

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. (Card Playing) See under Follow, v. t.

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.

So went he suited to his watery tomb. Shak.

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.