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A character or point [,] marking the smallest divisions of a sentence, written or printed.

Having the character of a commensal.

h afforded material comforts to the Union soldiers, and performed services of a religious character in the field and in hospitals. -- The United States Sanitary Commission, an organization formed by the people of the North to coöperate with and supplement the medical department of the Union armies during the Civil War…

Common character; likeness. [R.] The essential community of nature between organic growth and inorganic growth. H. Spencer.

To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention. Compare dead happiness with living woe. Shak. The place he found beyond expression bright, Compared with aug…

The bodily constitution; the temperament; habitude, or natural disposition; character; nature. [Obs.] If his complexion incline him to melancholy. Milton. It is the complexion of them all to leave the dam. Shak.

Possessing peculiarities that are characteristic of several diverse groups.

mpromise and barter. Burke. An abhorrence of concession and compromise is a never failing characteristic of religious factions. Hallam.

Serving or tending to concentrate; characterized by concentration. A discrimination is only possible by a concentrative act, or act of attention. Sir W. Hamilton.

sion into the same class with any number of other objects or impression, by means of some character or characters common to them all. Coleridge.

Characterized by concinnity; neat; elegant. [R.] The most concinnous and most rotund of proffessors, M. Heyne. De Quiency.

Temperament; disposition; character. [Obs.] The condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil. Shak.

The state of mind characterized by one's reliance on himself, or his circumstamces; a feeling of self-sufficiency; such assurance as leads to a feeling of security; self-reliance; -- often with self prefixed. Your wisdom is consumed in confidence; Do not go forth to-day. Shak. But confidence then bore thee on secure Ei…

unication, under Privileged. -- Confidential creditors, those whose claims are of such a character that they are entitled to be paid before other creditors. -- Confidential debts, debts incurred for borrowed money, and regarded as having a claim to be paid before other debts. McElrath.

lanets at any time. They [astrologers] undertook . . . to determine the course of a man's character and life from the configuration of the stars at the moment of his birth. Whewell.

Effecting confiscation; characterized by confiscations. "Confiscatory and exterminatory periods." Burke.

Characterized by having the pustules, etc., run together or unite, so as to cover the surface; as, confluent smallpox. Dunglison.

Corresponding in form, character, opinions, etc.; similar; like; consistent; proper or suitable; --usually followed by to.

Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.

A thing of the same genus, species, or kind; a thing allied in nature, character, or action.