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ake with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot.

To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.

Characterized by aberration.

Characterized by abirritation or debility.

y supplied; -- followed by in or with. To abound in, to posses in such abundance as to be characterized by. -- To abound with, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets of curiositie…

Characterized by abstinence; self-restraining. Farrar.

Of or pertaining to accent; characterized or formed by accent.

Characterized by accretion; made up; as, accrete matter.

Characterized by accumulation; serving to collect or amass; cumulative; additional. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ly, adv. -- Ac*cu"mu*la*tive*ness, n.

A morbid condition characterized by the presence of acetone in the blood, as in diabetes.

ste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetable blue or violet colors. They are also characterized by the power of destroying the distinctive properties of alkalies or bases, combining with them to form salts, at the same time losing their own peculiar properties. They all contain hydrogen, united with a more nega…

Characterized by a high skull.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, acrostics.

Characterized by acumen; keen. Highmore.

Suited, given, or tending, to adaptation; characterized by adaptation; capable of adapting. Coleridge. -- A*dapt"ive*ly, adv.

Characterized by adulteration; spurious. "An adulterous mixture." [Obs.] Smollett.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, debility of the vital powers; weak.

Any proceeding or action which it is wished to refer to or characterize vaguely; as, an affair of honor, i. e., a duel; an affair of love, i. e., an intrigue.

Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted. Tyndale.

Characterized by sterility; infecund.