charactery

/kar-ik-tuh-ree, -tree/US // ˈkær ɪk tə ri, -tri //UK // (ˈkærɪktərɪ, -trɪ) //

魅力,特征,特质,特性

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : the use of characters or symbols for the expression of meaning.
- : characters or symbols collectively.

Here is a shell; 'tis pearly blank to me, Nor mark'd with any sign or charactery– Canst thou read aught?
So in Keats: "Before high-piled books in charactery Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain."
She became very pale, and a rigid and desolate charactery took possession of her face.
The teeming tree Had swollen and green'd the pious charactery, But not ta'en out.
II.125 charactery: "writing by characters or strange marks."