characterizev.

Brit.

/ˈkarᵻktərʌɪz/, U.S.

/ˈkɛr(ə)ktəˌraɪz/

Forms: 1500s–1600s caracterise, 1500s–1600s caracterize, 1500s– characterise, 1500s– characterize, 1600s charractorize.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin characterizare ; character n., -ize suffix.

Etymology: Partly (i) < post-classical Latin characterizare to distinguish (14th cent. in a British source), to write (1503; < Hellenistic Greek χαρακτηρίζειν to engrave, inscribe, to designate by a characteristic mark < ancient Greek χαρακτήρ character n. + -ίζειν -ize suffix), and partly (ii) < character n. + -ize suffix. Compare Middle French caracteriser , French caractériser to mark (something) with a sign (1512), to define the character or identity of (something) (1663), German charakterisieren (1663). Compare earlier character v.

†1. transitive. To engrave, imprint, inscribe, or write (words, symbols, etc.) on or in something; to engrave, imprint, or inscribe (a surface, material, etc.) with something; also figurative and in figurative contexts. Also: to define in form or outline. Cf. character v. 1, 3. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)]

awriteeOE

writeOE

speak?c1225

paintc1400

conscribec1487

blecka1500

cipher1565

letter1570

characterize1581

character1589

bewrite1660

scriven1680

quill1768

screeve1851

society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > imprint [verb (transitive)]

printa1387

imprintc1400

engrave1542

characterize1581

character1589

impress1598

impression1612

1581 T. Newton in tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. St. Peter & St. Jude Ep. Ded. The rable of Cozenyng Caterpillers in the Kyngdome of Darkenesse, characterized and brended with the marke of the Beast.

1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 50 Waue-tossing windes characterizing feare On marble furrowes of the threatfull deepe.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Hh8 With the effigies of a male lambe characterized vpon her belly.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 60 Sentiments characterized and engraven in the Soul.

1793 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Insects II. lvii. 53 We prefer the name Lamdella, as the form of the Greek Lamda..is well characterized, on the superior Wings.

1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 513 A tusk of a young elephant, half petrified, but perfectly characterized.

1886 R. B. Anderson tr. G. Brandes Eminent Authors of Nineteenth Cent. 71 He does not stand out distinctly before the reader's eye... He ought in some way to be characterized, to be stamped by a word, a phrase.

2. transitive. To represent, symbolize, portray. Cf. character v. 2. Now somewhat rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > be symbol of [verb (transitive)]

token971

to stand for ——a1387

presentc1390

discern?a1439

liken?c1450

adumbrate1537

figurate?1548

character1555

shadow1574

shade1591

characterize1594

symbolize1603

hieroglyphic1615

personatea1616

modelizea1628

similize1646

symptom1648

express1649

signaturize1669

image1778

embryo1831

symbol1832

1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. I^v Under this did hee characterise a man desirous to climbe to the heauen of honour, kept vnder with the mountaine of his princes command.

1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) vi. xiv. 288 Desolation presignified unto Greece.., numerally characterized in that word.

1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. vi. 73 Janus was caracterised, bifrons.

1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Notion Hist. Draught Judgm. Hercules ii. 17 Silence shou'd be distinctly characteriz'd in Hercules.

1755 World 24 Apr. 730 The passions and manners strongly characterized, with great simplicity of colouring, by the hand of Raphael.

1853 H. N. Day Elem. Art Rhetoric (ed. 2) 269 Grief is here..characterised metaphorically as streaming.

1896 A. Lefevre Number & its Algebra ii. 23 The number of individuals in the group of objects numerically characterized by any such number-name.

1988 D. R. Redd in I. Van Sertima Great Black Leaders (2007) ii. 197 Her Zoser-zosru portraits characterized her to have been a feminine, graceful woman.

2004 E. Dugan 7 Days Magic 4 Helios..was often characterized in art as a handsome man draped in a white, sparkling tunic and cloak.

3. transitive. Of a feature or quality: to define the character or identity of, to mark, distinguish; to be typical or characteristic of. †Also with complement. Cf. character v. 5(b).

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > identify or distinguish [verb (transitive)]

to take knowledge ofa1400

character1555

distinguish1600

characterizea1602

remark1633

identify1675

stamp1837

dispunct1842

keynote1877

finger1945

a1602 W. Perkins Comm. Epist. Gal. (1604) vi. 594 True sauing faith, doth characterize those that are of the familie of faith.

1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 296 To be of a peaceable Spirit: This vertuous blessing, a blessed vertue: characterizing vs Gods Children.

1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §191 What is it that characterizeth or differenceth the sulphurs themselves?

1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne iv. 139 Every disease is characterized by a peculiar expression of the countenance.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 24 That excellent taste which characterises her writings.

1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) vi. §4. 298 The semi-serious infidelity which characterized the group of scholars round Lorenzo the Magnificent.

1922 Burlington Mag. June 310/2 The restraint and good taste which characterises the Chelsea of the red-anchor period.

1975 H. Luke in K. M. Setton Hist. Crusades III. xi. 378 James..rose to the occasion with the precocious vigor that characterized him.

2010 X. Liu Silk Road in World Hist. iii. 54 The very commodities traded along the Silk Road came to characterize Buddhist art.

4. To describe the distinctive nature or features of; to specify the identifying qualities of, classify. Cf. character v. 4.

a. transitive. With simple object or object and adverbial.

ΚΠ

1610 T. Morton Encounter against M. Parsons i. xii.164 Salomon doth characterize such like fellows: As he that faineth himselfe mad casteth fire-brands, arrowes, and mortall things: so dealeth the deceitfull man with his friend.

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 10) 220 Let mee now characterize to you the man, in whose heart there is this assurance.

1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. vii. 121 Here is a good Man expressly characterised.

1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxii. 143 I had no thoughts..of characterizing the militiating spirits of my country.

1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 588 Carbonate of Potash..was characterized by a great variety of names, according to the manner of preparing it.

1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 87 I do not choose to use the expressions which alone could characterize it.

1857 W. Thomson in Proc. Royal Soc. 8 122 I..venture to introduce the term peristaltic to characterize that kind of induction by which [etc.].

1931 E. B. Holt Animal Drive & Learning Process I. vii. 41 There is no satisfactory adjective already in use to characterize these responses which give the organism more of the stimulus.

1967 E. A. Mennis in H. W. Stevenson & J. R. Nelson Profits in Mod. Econ. 53 Although we cannot characterize it properly yet, it seems a period of more balanced, normal growth.

2010 W. Hopp Perception & Knowl. v. 131 I have no concept of that shade [of green]. I do not..possess the vocabulary required to characterize it.

b. With specification of nature or qualities.

(a) transitive. With infinitive and complement or simple complement.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > describe [verb (transitive)] > describe the character of

represent1513

relate1582

personate1591

endorse1596

rendera1616

worda1616

character1618

person1644

exponec1650

characterize1653

1653 J. Howell German Diet sig. L Hereupon they use to characterize a Dutchman to be an Animal that can drink more then he can carry.

1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 360 They are..characteriz'd to be Scholars, Men of Piety.

1770 F. Drake Accurate Descrip. Cathedral & Metropolitical Church St. Peter, York II. 80 He was more than ordinary remarkable; shewing himself, as he is truly characterised to be, Contentionum et litium hostis, et pacis et concordiæ amicus.

1790 R. Robinson Hist. Baptism i. 7 Pronouncing..the baptismal words, by which he characterized him a Christian.

1842 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 14 196 It is, indeed, what the framers of it have themselves characterized it to be in their Preface, ‘a patchwork of which they cannot boast’.

1907 Northeastern Reporter 80 537/2 The act done or omitted to be done should be characterized to have been negligently done or to have been negligently omitted.

a1954 J. R. Montgomery in T. Frank Discussing Hitler (2003) 86 He characterized it bad taste.

2009 S. A. Schultz & M. J. Schultz Tarantula Keeper's Guide (rev. ed.) iv. xvi. 352 Goliaths are not the malevolent, wrathful monsters that they are often characterized to be.

(b) transitive. With as.

ΚΠ

1655 H. Hammond Acct. Mr. Cawdry's Triplex Diatribe v. 92 The very name of will (of man) put to worship of God, as opposed to the will of God, the onely rule of worship, is as a brand in the forehead of it, to characterize it as condemnable in all.

1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lii. 174 He then explained the difference between the sitters and the betters; characterized the first as old rooks, and the last as bubbles.

1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxxii. 152 Nympholepsy is characterized as a frenzy, which arose from having beheld them [sc. the nymphs].

1837 Monthly Rev. Apr. 555 The precious autobiographical fragment..may be homelily characterized as being Walter Scott all over.

1888 12th Rep. Ohio Bur. Labour Statistics 263 ‘Employment agencies’..have very appropriately been characterized as ‘a class who trade on the needs of the inexperienced searcher for honest employment’.

1921 Outing Jan. 159/1 One coach..characterizes him as the cleverest forward passer he has ever seen.

1967 M. Braly On the Yard i. 17 A school psychologist characterized him as ‘seriously disturbed’.

2008 B. Goldacre Bad Sci. viii. 153 This process has been characterised as ‘disease-mongering’.

5. transitive. To impart character to; = character v. 5(a). †Also intransitive with object understood.In some cases difficult to distinguish from sense 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > impart a character or nature to [verb (transitive)]

naturea1393

naturize1607

clothe1611

character1621

characterize1786

temperament1855

1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Picturesque Beauty II. xvii. 42 Such a scene, in painting, would be highly characterized by such appendages.

a1807 J. Opie Lect. on Painting (1809) ii. 285 To leave out all that dignifies..all that characterizes.

1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §401. 534 In the forms of the Winds..ancient art displays..its capacity for characterizing with delicacy and precision.

1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) 535 Arthropods are highly characterized by longitudinal body segmentation; [etc.].

2009 C. R. Westphal Data Mining for Intelligence, Fraud, & Criminal Detection i. ii. 51 People are highly characterized by their names.

Derivatives

ˈcharacterized adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [adjective] > acted

personated1594

characterized1613

enacted1647

1613 P. Forbes Exquisite Comm. Reuelation St. Iohn Summe of Booke, sig. A3^v The filthinesse and hypocrisie of the Beast his characterized followers.

1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 44 Their Mimes or characteriz'd Discourses were as much relish'd as their most regular Poems.

1748 T. Nugent tr. J.-B. Du Bos Crit. Refl. Poetry, Painting & Music I. xlvi. 375 The ablest violins in Italy would execute but poorly one of Lulli's gavottes, much less any of his characterised symphonies.

1810 C. J. Ingersoll Inchiquin, Jesuit's Lett. ii. 18 They were a prudent and a warlike—a characterized people.

1862 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 10 173 Whatever may be the characterized species of Mexican Hydropori.

1941 M. H. Beigel & G. M. Kurth tr. T. Reik Masochism in Mod. Man v. 82 The designation ‘demonstrative’ for the characterized feature has been selected because..it is most apt to convey the idea of the typical behavior described above.

2007 A. S. Owen et al. Bad Girls i. 31 The alien creatures are primitive..and virtually indestructible, as are the characterized Vietnamese and Cambodian people in Apocalypse Now.

ˈcharacterizing n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > writing > [noun]

writingeOE

penning1548

composition1553

characterizing1591

penship1622

scription1627

exaration1631

inkshed1672

scrivening1680

quill-driving1756

pen-and-inkage1894

society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > [noun]

printinga1398

imprintingc1440

impression1444

characterizing1591

signature1605

impress1606

the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [adjective] > sketching or outlining

characterizing1591

characteral1656

characteristic1679

the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > outlining or sketching > character sketch or delineation of character

ethopoeia1555

charactery1608

character1645

characterizing1702

character sketch1842

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [noun] > imparting character

impresting1696

characterizing1850

society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [adjective]

monumentala1616

identifying1683

distinguishing1687

marking1795

characterizing1870

identificatory1887

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] > characteristic or distinguishing

distinctive1583

physiognomical1588

specifical1621

specific1649

diagnostic1650

distinguishable1665

specific1667

physiognomonical1668

well-characterized1672

specifying1675

distinguishing1687

determinative1697

physiognomonic1755

marking1795

featurelya1834

typical1850

characterizing1870

trademark1943

1591 J. Florio Second Frutes Ep. Ded. 2 With new caracterisings bepasting al the posts in London.

1646 S. Bolton Arraignment of Errour 353 All discriminating characterizing names..are nothing else but badges of faction.

1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus 54 These Illustrations and Characterizings of the Forms and Essences of Things are call'd Definitions.

1778 A. Duncan Med. Cases xviii. 235 All the definitions into which the enlargement of the head enters as a characterizing symptom of the disease.

1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §13 (note) Exaggerated characterizing is caricature.

1870 E. M. Goulburn Cathedral Syst. i. 14 The great characterizing idea.

1923 C. D. Broad Sci. Thought ii. 75 Take first a very simple characterising judgment, like ‘3 is a prime.’

2009 G. Tavinor Art of Videogames iii. 52 The real problem for the characterizing of fictional gaming is not how players become immersed in videogames..but how they play them at all.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	characterize
释义	characterizev. Brit. /ˈkarᵻktərʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈkɛr(ə)ktəˌraɪz/ Forms: 1500s–1600s caracterise, 1500s–1600s caracterize, 1500s– characterise, 1500s– characterize, 1600s charractorize. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin characterizare ; character n., -ize suffix. Etymology: Partly (i) < post-classical Latin characterizare to distinguish (14th cent. in a British source), to write (1503; < Hellenistic Greek χαρακτηρίζειν to engrave, inscribe, to designate by a characteristic mark < ancient Greek χαρακτήρ character n. + -ίζειν -ize suffix), and partly (ii) < character n. + -ize suffix. Compare Middle French caracteriser , French caractériser to mark (something) with a sign (1512), to define the character or identity of (something) (1663), German charakterisieren (1663). Compare earlier character v. †1. transitive. To engrave, imprint, inscribe, or write (words, symbols, etc.) on or in something; to engrave, imprint, or inscribe (a surface, material, etc.) with something; also figurative and in figurative contexts. Also: to define in form or outline. Cf. character v. 1, 3. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [verb (transitive)] awriteeOE writeOE speak?c1225 paintc1400 conscribec1487 blecka1500 cipher1565 letter1570 characterize1581 character1589 bewrite1660 scriven1680 quill1768 screeve1851 society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > imprint [verb (transitive)] printa1387 imprintc1400 engrave1542 characterize1581 character1589 impress1598 impression1612 1581 T. Newton in tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. St. Peter & St. Jude Ep. Ded. The rable of Cozenyng Caterpillers in the Kyngdome of Darkenesse, characterized and brended with the marke of the Beast. 1598 J. Dickenson Greene in Conceipt 50 Waue-tossing windes characterizing feare On marble furrowes of the threatfull deepe. 1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Hh8 With the effigies of a male lambe characterized vpon her belly. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. ii. 60 Sentiments characterized and engraven in the Soul. 1793 E. Donovan Nat. Hist. Brit. Insects II. lvii. 53 We prefer the name Lamdella, as the form of the Greek Lamda..is well characterized, on the superior Wings. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 513 A tusk of a young elephant, half petrified, but perfectly characterized. 1886 R. B. Anderson tr. G. Brandes Eminent Authors of Nineteenth Cent. 71 He does not stand out distinctly before the reader's eye... He ought in some way to be characterized, to be stamped by a word, a phrase. 2. transitive. To represent, symbolize, portray. Cf. character v. 2. Now somewhat rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > be symbol of [verb (transitive)] token971 to stand for ——a1387 presentc1390 discern?a1439 liken?c1450 adumbrate1537 figurate?1548 character1555 shadow1574 shade1591 characterize1594 symbolize1603 hieroglyphic1615 personatea1616 modelizea1628 similize1646 symptom1648 express1649 signaturize1669 image1778 embryo1831 symbol1832 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. I^v Under this did hee characterise a man desirous to climbe to the heauen of honour, kept vnder with the mountaine of his princes command. 1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) vi. xiv. 288 Desolation presignified unto Greece.., numerally characterized in that word. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I iii. vi. 73 Janus was caracterised, bifrons. 1713 Ld. Shaftesbury Notion Hist. Draught Judgm. Hercules ii. 17 Silence shou'd be distinctly characteriz'd in Hercules. 1755 World 24 Apr. 730 The passions and manners strongly characterized, with great simplicity of colouring, by the hand of Raphael. 1853 H. N. Day Elem. Art Rhetoric (ed. 2) 269 Grief is here..characterised metaphorically as streaming. 1896 A. Lefevre Number & its Algebra ii. 23 The number of individuals in the group of objects numerically characterized by any such number-name. 1988 D. R. Redd in I. Van Sertima Great Black Leaders (2007) ii. 197 Her Zoser-zosru portraits characterized her to have been a feminine, graceful woman. 2004 E. Dugan 7 Days Magic 4 Helios..was often characterized in art as a handsome man draped in a white, sparkling tunic and cloak. 3. transitive. Of a feature or quality: to define the character or identity of, to mark, distinguish; to be typical or characteristic of. †Also with complement. Cf. character v. 5(b). ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > identify or distinguish [verb (transitive)] to take knowledge ofa1400 character1555 distinguish1600 characterizea1602 remark1633 identify1675 stamp1837 dispunct1842 keynote1877 finger1945 a1602 W. Perkins Comm. Epist. Gal. (1604) vi. 594 True sauing faith, doth characterize those that are of the familie of faith. 1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 296 To be of a peaceable Spirit: This vertuous blessing, a blessed vertue: characterizing vs Gods Children. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §191 What is it that characterizeth or differenceth the sulphurs themselves? 1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne iv. 139 Every disease is characterized by a peculiar expression of the countenance. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 24 That excellent taste which characterises her writings. 1876 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People (1882) vi. §4. 298 The semi-serious infidelity which characterized the group of scholars round Lorenzo the Magnificent. 1922 Burlington Mag. June 310/2 The restraint and good taste which characterises the Chelsea of the red-anchor period. 1975 H. Luke in K. M. Setton Hist. Crusades III. xi. 378 James..rose to the occasion with the precocious vigor that characterized him. 2010 X. Liu Silk Road in World Hist. iii. 54 The very commodities traded along the Silk Road came to characterize Buddhist art. 4. To describe the distinctive nature or features of; to specify the identifying qualities of, classify. Cf. character v. 4. a. transitive. With simple object or object and adverbial. ΚΠ 1610 T. Morton Encounter against M. Parsons i. xii.164 Salomon doth characterize such like fellows: As he that faineth himselfe mad casteth fire-brands, arrowes, and mortall things: so dealeth the deceitfull man with his friend. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 10) 220 Let mee now characterize to you the man, in whose heart there is this assurance. 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. vii. 121 Here is a good Man expressly characterised. 1761 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IV. xxii. 143 I had no thoughts..of characterizing the militiating spirits of my country. 1807 T. Thomson Syst. Chem. (ed. 3) II. 588 Carbonate of Potash..was characterized by a great variety of names, according to the manner of preparing it. 1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 3) I. 87 I do not choose to use the expressions which alone could characterize it. 1857 W. Thomson in Proc. Royal Soc. 8 122 I..venture to introduce the term peristaltic to characterize that kind of induction by which [etc.]. 1931 E. B. Holt Animal Drive & Learning Process I. vii. 41 There is no satisfactory adjective already in use to characterize these responses which give the organism more of the stimulus. 1967 E. A. Mennis in H. W. Stevenson & J. R. Nelson Profits in Mod. Econ. 53 Although we cannot characterize it properly yet, it seems a period of more balanced, normal growth. 2010 W. Hopp Perception & Knowl. v. 131 I have no concept of that shade [of green]. I do not..possess the vocabulary required to characterize it. b. With specification of nature or qualities. (a) transitive. With infinitive and complement or simple complement. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > describe [verb (transitive)] > describe the character of represent1513 relate1582 personate1591 endorse1596 rendera1616 worda1616 character1618 person1644 exponec1650 characterize1653 1653 J. Howell German Diet sig. L Hereupon they use to characterize a Dutchman to be an Animal that can drink more then he can carry. 1710 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 360 They are..characteriz'd to be Scholars, Men of Piety. 1770 F. Drake Accurate Descrip. Cathedral & Metropolitical Church St. Peter, York II. 80 He was more than ordinary remarkable; shewing himself, as he is truly characterised to be, Contentionum et litium hostis, et pacis et concordiæ amicus. 1790 R. Robinson Hist. Baptism i. 7 Pronouncing..the baptismal words, by which he characterized him a Christian. 1842 Amer. Jrnl. Pharmacy 14 196 It is, indeed, what the framers of it have themselves characterized it to be in their Preface, ‘a patchwork of which they cannot boast’. 1907 Northeastern Reporter 80 537/2 The act done or omitted to be done should be characterized to have been negligently done or to have been negligently omitted. a1954 J. R. Montgomery in T. Frank Discussing Hitler (2003) 86 He characterized it bad taste. 2009 S. A. Schultz & M. J. Schultz Tarantula Keeper's Guide (rev. ed.) iv. xvi. 352 Goliaths are not the malevolent, wrathful monsters that they are often characterized to be. (b) transitive. With as. ΚΠ 1655 H. Hammond Acct. Mr. Cawdry's Triplex Diatribe v. 92 The very name of will (of man) put to worship of God, as opposed to the will of God, the onely rule of worship, is as a brand in the forehead of it, to characterize it as condemnable in all. 1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random II. lii. 174 He then explained the difference between the sitters and the betters; characterized the first as old rooks, and the last as bubbles. 1776 R. Chandler Trav. Greece xxxii. 152 Nympholepsy is characterized as a frenzy, which arose from having beheld them [sc. the nymphs]. 1837 Monthly Rev. Apr. 555 The precious autobiographical fragment..may be homelily characterized as being Walter Scott all over. 1888 12th Rep. Ohio Bur. Labour Statistics 263 ‘Employment agencies’..have very appropriately been characterized as ‘a class who trade on the needs of the inexperienced searcher for honest employment’. 1921 Outing Jan. 159/1 One coach..characterizes him as the cleverest forward passer he has ever seen. 1967 M. Braly On the Yard i. 17 A school psychologist characterized him as ‘seriously disturbed’. 2008 B. Goldacre Bad Sci. viii. 153 This process has been characterised as ‘disease-mongering’. 5. transitive. To impart character to; = character v. 5(a). †Also intransitive with object understood.In some cases difficult to distinguish from sense 3. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > impart a character or nature to [verb (transitive)] naturea1393 naturize1607 clothe1611 character1621 characterize1786 temperament1855 1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Picturesque Beauty II. xvii. 42 Such a scene, in painting, would be highly characterized by such appendages. a1807 J. Opie Lect. on Painting (1809) ii. 285 To leave out all that dignifies..all that characterizes. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §401. 534 In the forms of the Winds..ancient art displays..its capacity for characterizing with delicacy and precision. 1952 W. J. Miller Introd. Hist. Geol. (ed. 6) 535 Arthropods are highly characterized by longitudinal body segmentation; [etc.]. 2009 C. R. Westphal Data Mining for Intelligence, Fraud, & Criminal Detection i. ii. 51 People are highly characterized by their names. Derivatives ˈcharacterized adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > acting > [adjective] > acted personated1594 characterized1613 enacted1647 1613 P. Forbes Exquisite Comm. Reuelation St. Iohn Summe of Booke, sig. A3^v The filthinesse and hypocrisie of the Beast his characterized followers. 1710 Ld. Shaftesbury Soliloquy 44 Their Mimes or characteriz'd Discourses were as much relish'd as their most regular Poems. 1748 T. Nugent tr. J.-B. Du Bos Crit. Refl. Poetry, Painting & Music I. xlvi. 375 The ablest violins in Italy would execute but poorly one of Lulli's gavottes, much less any of his characterised symphonies. 1810 C. J. Ingersoll Inchiquin, Jesuit's Lett. ii. 18 They were a prudent and a warlike—a characterized people. 1862 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 10 173 Whatever may be the characterized species of Mexican Hydropori. 1941 M. H. Beigel & G. M. Kurth tr. T. Reik Masochism in Mod. Man v. 82 The designation ‘demonstrative’ for the characterized feature has been selected because..it is most apt to convey the idea of the typical behavior described above. 2007 A. S. Owen et al. Bad Girls i. 31 The alien creatures are primitive..and virtually indestructible, as are the characterized Vietnamese and Cambodian people in Apocalypse Now. ˈcharacterizing n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > [noun] writingeOE penning1548 composition1553 characterizing1591 penship1622 scription1627 exaration1631 inkshed1672 scrivening1680 quill-driving1756 pen-and-inkage1894 society > communication > indication > marking > imprinting > [noun] printinga1398 imprintingc1440 impression1444 characterizing1591 signature1605 impress1606 the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [adjective] > sketching or outlining characterizing1591 characteral1656 characteristic1679 the mind > language > speech > narration > description or act of describing > [noun] > outlining or sketching > character sketch or delineation of character ethopoeia1555 charactery1608 character1645 characterizing1702 character sketch1842 the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > character or nature > [noun] > imparting character impresting1696 characterizing1850 society > communication > indication > that which identifies or distinguishes > [adjective] monumentala1616 identifying1683 distinguishing1687 marking1795 characterizing1870 identificatory1887 the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adjective] > characteristic or distinguishing distinctive1583 physiognomical1588 specifical1621 specific1649 diagnostic1650 distinguishable1665 specific1667 physiognomonical1668 well-characterized1672 specifying1675 distinguishing1687 determinative1697 physiognomonic1755 marking1795 featurelya1834 typical1850 characterizing1870 trademark1943 1591 J. Florio Second Frutes Ep. Ded. 2 With new caracterisings bepasting al the posts in London. 1646 S. Bolton Arraignment of Errour 353 All discriminating characterizing names..are nothing else but badges of faction. 1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus 54 These Illustrations and Characterizings of the Forms and Essences of Things are call'd Definitions. 1778 A. Duncan Med. Cases xviii. 235 All the definitions into which the enlargement of the head enters as a characterizing symptom of the disease. 1850 J. Leitch tr. K. O. Müller Ancient Art (new ed.) §13 (note) Exaggerated characterizing is caricature. 1870 E. M. Goulburn Cathedral Syst. i. 14 The great characterizing idea. 1923 C. D. Broad Sci. Thought ii. 75 Take first a very simple characterising judgment, like ‘3 is a prime.’ 2009 G. Tavinor Art of Videogames iii. 52 The real problem for the characterizing of fictional gaming is not how players become immersed in videogames..but how they play them at all. 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