The Collaborative International Dictionary
Charactery \Char"ac*ter*y\, n.
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The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.
Fairies use flowers for their charactery.
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That which is charactered; the meaning. [Obs.]
I will construe to thee All the charactery of my sad brows.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) The art or means of characterize; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark. 2 (context obsolete English) That which is charactered; the meaning.
Usage examples of "charactery".
History makes use of me to weave her web To her long while aforetime-figured mesh And contemplated charactery: no more.
But Adrian read with uncertain aim the charactery of her face, and might mistake.
Perdita, wedded to an imagination, careless of what is behind the veil, whose charactery is in truth faulty and vile, Perdita has renounced me.
It arrived in a flicker and hum of transporter effect: a fat dossier with squat blocks of Rihanha charactery on its cover.
H'daen's stare was undisguised now, and he was trying to read her face as he might read charactery on a viewscreen.