What is "characterises"

Usage examples of "characterises".

And this, with most, is peculiarly marked in the turn of the head, the outline of the shoulders, and the ineffable something that characterises the postures of each individual in repose.

Nature seemed to have prepared it for their reception with all that luxuriant bounty, which characterises her most favoured spots.

Therefore if we place ourselves in a perspective of intuition, I mean, of complete perception, the demand for reason appears second only, without being deprived, however, of its true task: it is an echo and a recollection, an appeal and a promise of profound continuity, our original anticipation and our final hope, in the bosom of the elementary atomism which characterises the transitory region of language.

Simpson, with the dare-devilishness that characterises the type, introduced me to the accomplice.

The crowded street had all that prosperous air of catching or missing something which characterises the town where London and New York and Dublin meet.

The word, in fact, characterises that artist whose temperamental preoccupation is with revelation of the actual interrelating spirit of life, character, and thought, with a view to enlighten himself and others.

Grandfather and grandson had both the Roman nose which appears to have flourished chiefly at the formative period of the republic, and which occurs more rarely in the descendants of the conscript fathers, though it still characterises the profiles of a good many Boston ladies.

If it be found too conservative now, the downward tendency in political ideas which characterises this democratic age is a sufficient guarantee for amendment.