Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
carat . - noun A distinctive mark, especially as indicating character or value.
- noun Character; kind; sort.
- noun Estimate.
- noun A formula of enchantment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
mark orsign - noun obsolete A
magical symbol
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word caract.
Examples
-
Mr. Hampton and the cast cycled through dozens of English phrases for the French word "caractériel," someone who relishes in behaving badly, including "self-centered brute," "hooligan," "delinquent."
-
The dancing, probably, was of that kind which the moderns call _demi-caractère_, and was performed in picturesque costume ----
Gryll Grange Thomas Love Peacock 1825
-
He has succeeded still better in les caract ` eres de la danse, to which he has adapted words that express all the characters of love.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3 Horace Walpole 1757
-
On July 18th, it will be conducting a 3 day long eye camp in Boro Chouna Bazar, PS Sakhipur in Tangail, Bangladesh where more than 1000 people are expected to get their eyes screened for cataract problems. 300 patients will be given free eye medication and up to sixty patient will get free caract removal surgery with lens implants.
-
On July 18th, it will be conducting a 3 day long eye camp in Boro Chouna Bazar, PS Sakhipur in Tangail, Bangladesh where more than 1000 people are expected to get their eyes screened for cataract problems. 300 patients will be given free eye medication and up to sixty patient will get free caract removal surgery with lens implants.
-
L'envoi par email de documents d'int€ ér€ êt public, de caract€ ère socio-politique et culturel aux mod€ érateurs de HC constitue une autorisation tacite de l'auteur ou des auteurs de ces documents pour une € éventuelle publication sur HC, € à moins que ces auteurs en conviennent autrement.
-
Whereas, indeed, it is the most prevailing eloquence, and of the most exalted caract.
Discoveries Made Upon Men and Matter and Some Poems Ben Jonson 1605
-
Everytime I fly BA they're always corteous and professional and they have to put up with some really weird caract (as I've witnessed before) so until you actually speak to a pilot and see an engineer maintaining a plane don't assume they're top notch
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2009
-
_demi-caractère_, her talents, in the different parts in which she is placed, are above all panegyric.
Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798
-
vista jean posted on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 12: 27 PM jean wrote: Houl?, c'est dur? lire ce conglom? rat de caract?
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.