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Characterized by courteousness, affability, or gentleness; of good appearance and manners; graceful; complaisant. Was never prince so meek and debonair. Spenser.

A Linnæan order of plants characterized by having ten styles.

A Linnæan class of plants characterized by having ten stamens.

Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak.

Possessed of, or characterized by, a decidua.

Characterized by rhetorical display; pretentiously rhetorical; without solid sense or argument; bombastic; noisy; as, a declamatory way or style.

Characterized by dehiscence; opening in some definite way, as the capsule of a plant.

Concealment; seclusion. The mental organization of the novelist must be characterized, to speak craniologically, by an extraordinary development of the passion for delitescency. Sir W. Scott.

To give a name to; to characterize by an epithet; to entitle; to name; to designate. Passions commonly denominating selfish. Hume.

Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language.

Tending or designed to depredate; characterized by depredation; plundering; as, a depredatory incursion.

Expressing, serving for, or characterized by, derision. "Derisive taunts." Pope. -- De*ri"sive*ly, adv. -- De*ri"sive*ness, n.

hed from ether forms nearly related to it; a variety or subdivision of a language; speech characterized by local peculiarities or specific circumstances; as, the Ionic and Attic were dialects of Greece; the Yorkshire dialect; the dialect of the learned. In the midst of this Babel of dialects there suddenly appeared a s…

That form or condition of magnetic action which characterizes diamagnetics.

in one's self; distrustful of one's own powers; not self-reliant; timid; modest; bashful; characterized by modest reserve. The diffident maidens, Folding their hands in prayer. Longfellow.

d, like the fingers of the hand, at the extremity of a stem or petiole. Also, in general, characterized by digitation. -- Dig"i*tate*ly, adv.

Characterized by dimorphism; occurring under two distinct forms, not dependent on sex; dimorphic.

Characterized by tact and shrewdness; dexterous; artful; as, diplomatic management.

A style of dress prevalent at the time of the French Directory, characterized by great extravagance of design and imitating the Greek and Roman costumes.

Characterized by direption. [R.] Encyc. Dict.