stilus

The word stilus itself is much more frequently used.

STYLE IN LITERATURE R. A. SAYCE 1968

The word “style” derives from Latin stilus, an instrument for writing on wax tablets, hence, by metonymy, a way of writing

STYLE IN LITERATURE R. A. SAYCE 1968

After these words spoken to Fleur, the Queen, in sore trouble of spirit, sought her lord the King, and showing to him the golden stilus, said,

Fleur and Blanchefleur Mrs. Leighton

So saying, Fleur would have stabbed himself to the heart with the golden stilus, but the Queen his mother tore it from his hand, crying: 'What madness were it to lose your life for love!

Fleur and Blanchefleur Mrs. Leighton

Totus hic liber ... in consiliis et subtilitatibus est. nam paene comicus stilus est. nec mirum, ubi de amore tractatur.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

'Sir, take pity on your child, for with this golden stilus he had done himself to death but for my staying hand; and, sir, were he, our only child, to die, bethink you how grievous would be our loss!

Fleur and Blanchefleur Mrs. Leighton

The design was laid out with a stilus on a copper plate.

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

After this lament Fleur arose, and drawing a golden stilus from its case, he said, 'This stilus, her parting gift, and all now left to me of Blanchefleur, shall be my comfort by taking me from a world in which without her I cannot bear to live.'

Fleur and Blanchefleur Mrs. Leighton

Pictorial illustrations of the Artes are often found, usually female figures with suitable attributes; thus Grammar appears with book and rod, Rhetoric with tablet and stilus, Dialectic with a dog's head in her hand, probably in contrast to the wolf of heresy -- cf. the play on words Domini canes, Dominicani -- Arithmetic with a knotted rope,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

But you get no return in an argument with seniors -- they have the whip hand of you every time; so here, ole man Baker, bring out your stilus and tablets and write out brigade orders.

On the Heels of De Wet Lionel James 1913