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Word Meanings - ANTIQUARIANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Character of an antiquary; study or love of antiquities. Warburton.

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  • CHARACTERISTIC
    Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. Characteristic clearness of temper. Macaulay.
  • CHARACTER
    1. A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol. It were much to be wished that there were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder. 2. Style of writing or printing; handwriting;
  • STUDY
    A representation or rendering of any object or scene intended, not for exhibition as an original work of art, but for the information, instruction, or assistance of the maker; as, a study of heads or of hands for a figure picture. (more
  • CHARACTERISM
    A distinction of character; a characteristic. Bp. Hall.
  • CHARACTERIZE
    1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
  • ANTIQUARY
    Pertaining to antiquity. "Instructed by the antiquary times." Shak.
  • CHARACTERISTICALLY
    In a characteristic manner; in a way that characterizes.
  • CHARACTERIZATION
    The act or process of characterizing.
  • CHARACTERISTICAL
    Characteristic.
  • CHARACTERY
    1. The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. Fairies use flowers for their charactery. Shak. 2. That which is charactered; the meaning. I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad
  • CHARACTERLESS
    Destitute of any distinguishing quality; without character or force.
  • CHILD STUDY
    A scientific study of children, undertaken for the purpose of discovering the laws of development of the body and the mind from birth to manhood.
  • MISCHARACTERIZE
    To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
  • MENDELIAN CHARACTER
    A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.
  • UNDERSTUDY
    To study, as another actor's part, in order to be his substitute in an emergency; to study another actor's part.

 

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