A genus of flowerless plants, having articulated stems and whorled branches. They flourish in wet places.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign. [Obs.] See Character.
1. D. Anno domini; etc.
2. A mark or figure made by stamping or impression, as on coins.
3. The manner of writing; the peculiar from of letters used by a particular person.
4. You know the character to be your brothers
5. The peculiar qualities, impressed by nature or habit on a person, which distinguish him from others; these constitute real character, and the qualities which he is supposed to possess, constitute his estimated character, or reputation. Hence we say, a character is not formed, when the person has not acquired stable and distinctive qualities.
6. An account, description or representation of any thing, exhibiting its qualities and the circumstances attending it; as, to give a bad character o a town, or to a road.
7. A person; as, the assembly consisted of various characters, eminent characters, and low characters.
8. All the characters in the play appeared to advantage.
9. The friendship of distinguished characters.
10. By way of eminence, distinguished or good qualities; those which are esteemed and respected; and those which are ascribed to a person in common estimation. We enquire whether a stranger is a man of character.
11. Adventitious qualities impressed by office, or station; the qualities that, in public estimation, belong to a person in a particular station; as when we ask how a magistrate, or commander supports his character.
12. In natural history, the peculiar discriminating qualities or properties of animals, plants and minerals.
13. These properties, when employed for the purpose of discriminating minerals, are called characters.
2. A particular aspect or configuration of the heavens.
1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.
2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting; the peculiar form of letters used by a particular person or people; as, an inscription in the Runic character.
3. The peculiar quality, or the sum of qualities, by which a person or a thing is distinguished from others; the stamp impressed by nature, education, or habit; that which a person or thing really is; nature; disposition.
4. Strength of mind; resolution; independence; individuality; as, he has a great deal of character.
5. Moral quality; the principles and motives that control the life; as, a man of character; his character saves him from suspicion.
6. Quality, position, rank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.
7. The estimate, individual or general, put upon a person or thing; reputation; as, a man's character for truth and veracity; to give one a bad character.
8. A written statement as to behavior, competency, etc., given to a servant.
9. A unique or extraordinary individuality; a person characterized by peculiar or notable traits; a person who illustrates certain phases of character; as, Randolph was a character; Caesar is a great historical character.
10. One of the persons of a drama or novel.
2. To distinguish by particular marks or traits; to describe; to characterize.
of Character
A distinction of character; a characteristic.
CHARACTERISTIC ,
1. That constitutes the character; that marks the peculiar, distinctive qualities of a person or thing.
2. Generosity is often a characteristic virtue of a brave man.
3. It is followed by of.
4. Generosity is characteristic of true bravery.
1. That which constitutes a character; that which characterizes; that which distinguishes a person or thing from another.
2. Invention is the characteristic of Homer.
3. In grammar, the principal letter of a word, which is preserved in most of its tenses, in its derivatives and compounds.
5. The characteristic triangle of a curve, in geometry, is a rectilinear right-angled triangle, whose hypotenuse makes a part of the curve, not sensibly different from a right line.
Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.
1. A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized.
2. The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.
Characteristic.
The state or qualities of being characteristic.
In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
The act or process of characterizing.
1. To give a character, or an account of the personal qualities of a man; to describe by peculiar qualities.
2. To distinguish; to mark, or express the character; to exhibit the peculiar qualities of a person or thing; as, humility characterizes the true Christian; the hero is characterized by bravery and magnanimity.
3. The system of mediation has characterized the entire scheme of divine dispensation.
4. To engrave or imprint.
5. To mark with a peculiar stamp, or figure.
1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features.
2. To engrave or imprint.
3. To indicate the character of; to describe.
4. To be a characteristic of; to make, or express the character of.
Described or distinguished by peculiar qualities.
of Characterize
Describing or distinguishing by peculiar qualities.
of Characterize
Destitute of any peculiar character.
Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.
Impression; mark; distinction.
1. The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.
2. That which is charactered; the meaning.
A composition, in which the subject must be a word of two syllables, each forming a distinct word; and these syllables are to be concealed in an enigmatical description, first separately and then together. Example. My first, when a Frenchman in learning English, serves him to swear by. My second is either hay or corn. My whole is the delight of the age.
A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations.
Charade
Encyclopedia Britannica
CHARADE, a trifling species of composition, or quasi-literary form of amusement, which may perhaps be best defined as a punning enigma propounded in a series of descriptions. A word is taken of two or more syllables, each forming a distinct word; each of these is described in verse or prose, as aptly and enigmatically as possible; and the same process is applied to the whole word. The neater and briefer the descriptive parts of the problem, the better the charade will be. In selecting words for charades, special attention should be paid to the absolute quality of the syllables composing them, inaccuracy in trifles of this sort depriving them of what little claim to merit they may possess. The brilliant rhythmic trifles of W. Mackworth Praed are well known. Of representative prose charades, the following specimens are perhaps as good as could be selected :—“My first, with the most rooted antipathy to a Frenchman, prides himself, whenever they meet, upon sticking close to his jacket; my second has many virtues, nor is its least that it gives its name to my first; my whole may I never catch !” “My first is company; my second shuns company; my third collects company; and my whole amuses company.” The solutions are Tar-tar and Comun-dmm. “Acting charades” are simply punning enigmas described dramatically. A brilliant description of this variety of the species will be found in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 5, p. 398
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3 KJV and 9 BSB verses contain “chara”
And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou art a virtuous woman.
And now do not be afraid, my daughter. I will do for you whatever you request, since all my fellow townspeople know that you are a woman of noble character.
And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
And Solomon replied, “If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, he will die.”
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.
And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
perseverance, character; and character, hope.
Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving.
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
so that the proven character of your faith—more precious than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
These came up from Thermeleth and Thelersas, Charaathalar leading them, and Aalar;
Then departed they from thence seven hundred and fifty furlongs, and came to Characa unto the Jews that are called Tubieni.