See also:

• 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
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

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 See also:

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

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
• LAW (0. Eng. lagu, M. Eng. lawe; from an old Teutonic root lag, " lie," what lies fixed or evenly; cf. Lat. lex, Fr. loi)
• LAW, JOHN (1671—1729)
• LAW, WILLIAM (1686-1761)

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
• JOSEPH, COMTE DE (1785-1870)
• JOSEPH, FATHER (FRANCOIS LECLERC DU TREMBLAY) (1577-1638)

Joseph See also:

• HALL
• HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
• HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
• HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
• HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
• HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
• HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
• HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
• HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
• HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
• HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
• HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
• HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
• HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
• HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
• HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
• HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
• HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)

Hall (1574–1656) and See also:

• SIR

Sir See also:

• THOMAS
• THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
• THOMAS (d. 110o)
• THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
• THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
• THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
• THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
• THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
• THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
• THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
• THOMAS, ST
• THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
• THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)

Thomas See also:

• OVERBURY, SIR THOMAS (1581-1613)

Overbury .