What is "characteristick"

Usage examples of "characteristick".

I remain firm and confident in my opinion, that minute particulars are frequently characteristick, and always amusing, when they relate to a distinguished man.

There is a traditional story of the infant Hercules of toryism, so curiously characteristick, that I shall not withhold it.

On this occasion he mentioned a circumstance as characteristick of the Scotch.

As it is, our judgement must be biassed by that characteristick specimen which Sir John Hawkins has given us: 'Poor Thrale!