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CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&See also:
CREW (sometimes explained as a sea term of Scandinavian origin, cf. O. Icel. kris, a swarm or crowd, but now regarded as a shortened form of accrue, accrewe, used in the 16th century in the sense of a reinforcement, O. Fr. acreue, from accrofire, to grow,
CREW, NATHANIEL CREW, 3RD BARON (1633–1721)
crew, to scratch) , a distinctive See also:

mark (spelt " caracter " up to the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, with other variants); so applied to symbols of notation or letters of the See also:

ALPHABET (see also WRITING)

alphabet; more figuratively, the distinguishing traits of anything, and particularly the moral and See also:

MENTAL

mental qualities of an individual human being, the sum of those qualities which distinguish him as a See also:

PERSONALITY (from Lat. persona, originally an actor's mask, from personare,1 to sound through)

personality. From the latter usage " a character " becomes almost identical with " reputation "; and in the sense of " giving a servant a character," the word involves a written testimonial. For the See also:

law See also:

RELATING

relating to servants' See also:

CHAR (Salvelinus)

char- acters see See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

MASTER AND SERVANT. A further development is the use of " character " to mean an " See also:

ODD (in middle English odde, from old Norwegian oddi, an angle of a triangle; the old Norwegian oddamann is used of the third man who gives a casting vote in a dispute)

odd or See also:

ECCENTRIC (from Gr. F,c, out of, and Kivrpov, centre)

eccentric See also:

PERSON, OFFENCES AGAINST THE

person "; or of a " character actor, to mean an actor who plays a highly-coloured See also:

STRANGE, SIR ROBERT (1721-1792)

strange See also:

PART

part. The word is also used as the name of a See also:

FORM (Lat. forma)

form of literature, consisting of See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short descriptions of types of character. Well-known examples of such " characters " are those of See also:

THEOPHRASTUS

Theophrastus and La Bruyere, and in See also:

ENGLISH

English, of See also:

Joseph See also:

Hall (1574–1656) and See also:

Sir See also:

Thomas See also:

OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS (1581-1613)

Overbury.

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