Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having comely features; handsome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having features; showing marked peculiarities; handsome.
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- adjective Having
features ; showing marked peculiarities;handsome .
Etymologies
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Examples
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In modern times, when society is more tolerant, new national characters are neither so strong, so featurely, nor so uniform.
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society Walter Bagehot 1851
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Shakspeare's main object, or shall I rather say, his ruling impulse, was to translate the poetic heroes of paganism into the not less rude, but more intellectually vigorous, and more _featurely_, warriors of
Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Shakespeare’s main object, or shall I rather say his ruling impulse, was to translate the poetic heroes of paganism into the not less rude, but more intellectually vigorous, and more _featurely_, warriors of Christian chivalry, — and to substantiate the distinct and graceful profiles or outlines of the Homeric epic into the flesh and blood of the romantic drama; — in short, to give a grand history-piece in the robust style of
Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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