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▪ I. † caract, carect, n. Obs.
Forms: 4–6 caracte, carecte, 4–7 carect, 5 karect, 6 carracte, karecte, carrect, 7 caract, carract. See also charact.
[ME. caracte, carect, OF. caracte, carecte fem., caract masc., correspond to L. types *characta, -um, app. a. Gr. χαρακτός, -ή, -όν ‘graven, impressed as a mark’, taken absol. as = character. Caracta occurs in Pr. rendering characterem in the Vulg., Rev. xiii. 15: possibly the form arose only in Romanic from L. charácter.]
1. A mark, sign, or character.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xii. 80 Þorw carectus þat cryst wrot. 1382Wyclif Rev. xiv. 11 If ony man toke the carecte of his [the beast's] name. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. v. 166 Sum seable cros or mark or carect. 1570Billingsley Euclid ii. v. 68 The greatest and least karectes or numbers. 1587Golding De Mornay iii. 37 The Egiptians..described him [God] in their holy Carects as a Pilot alone gouerning a ship. 1603Shakes. Meas. for M. v. i. 56 In all his dressings, caracts, titles, formes. 1655Trapp Comm. 1 Cor. x. 21 An altar..which must have its prints and carects.
spec.1530Palsgr. 203/1 Carracte in pricke song, minime.
2. spec. A magical character or symbol; a charm.
1393Gower Conf. I. 57 Whan that a man..With his carecte him [a serpent] wolde enchaunte. Ibid. III. 138 Of sorcerie the caractes. 1522Skelton Why nat to Court 694 By nycromancy, By carectes and coniuracyon.
▪ II. † caract, v. Obs.
[f. prec. n. Cf. med.L. caranāre in Du Cange.]
trans. To mark (with a sign or letter).
1662Fuller Worthies i. 61 We have in the Margin caracted them with a Rem: for Remove.
▪ III. caract(e
obs. form of carrack and carat. |