Charactery vs Characters - What's the difference?
charactery | characters |
(obsolete) The art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark.
*1818 , John Keats,
*:When I have fears that I may cease to be
*:Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain,
*:Before high piled books, in charact`ry ,
*:Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain;
(obsolete) That which is charactered; the meaning.
As nouns the difference between charactery and characters
is that charactery is (obsolete) the art or means of characterizing; a system of signs or characters; symbolism; distinctive mark while characters is .charactery
English
Noun
(characteries)- Fairies use flowers for their charactery . — Shakespeare.
- I will construe to thee / All the charactery of my sad brows. — Shakespeare.
