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Characteristic   /kˌɛrəktərˈɪstɪk/   Listen
adjective
Characteristic  adj.  Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive. "Characteristic clearness of temper."


noun
Characteristic  n.  
1.
A distinguishing trait, quality, or property; an element of character; that which characterized. "The characteristics of a true critic."
2.
(Math.) The integral part (whether positive or negative) of a logarithm.





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"Characteristic" Quotes from Famous Books



... be presented from the Mosaic laws to prove that this prohibition was only of a temporary character. It is in entire harmony with the spirit of helpfulness and especially the protection of the weak, that is so characteristic of ...
— Usury - A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View • Calvin Elliott
... appeal he wrote a most informing and characteristic article for The Times of India (July 19, 1899), which threw a flood of light on the subject of the habits and characteristics of the Indian rat as found in town and country. He was the first to show that Mus rattus, the old English black rat, which is the common house rat ...
— Concerning Animals and Other Matters • E.H. Aitken, (AKA Edward Hamilton)
... have seldom heard the corncrake, and never once the grasshopper lark. These two birds are so characteristic of the meadows in southwestern counties that a summer evening seems silent to me without the "crake, crake!" of the one and the singular sibilous rattle of the other. But they come to other places not far distant ...
— Nature Near London • Richard Jefferies
... Burton. She had scant sympathy and could make but slight excuse for the neurotic persons who have no fortitude with which to meet life's inevitable disasters but expend all their energy in compassion for themselves. Especially did she resent this characteristic in a young girl, having grown accustomed to the sanity and the outdoor spirit engendered by the Camp Fire life. Moreover, one has at present no time or pity save for ...
— The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor • Margaret Vandercook
... understand their aspirations, and sympathise with their lives, while at the same time we have no wish (not to say hope) to put back the clock, and start from the position which they held. For, indeed, it is characteristic of the times in which we live, that whereas in the beginning of the romantic reaction, its supporters were for the most part mere laudatores temporis acti, at the present time those who take pleasure ...
— Mediaeval Lore from Bartholomew Anglicus • Robert Steele


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