Definition of "characterise" [characterise]

• Alternative spelling of characterize. (verb)

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• "Foreign Policy, Walter Russell Mead coined a phrase to characterise what he suggested was hampering President Obama's presidency: the Carter Syndrome."
• "His numerous and amusing errors are such as characterise the fanaticism that would refute"
• "However the exaltedness of some minds (or rather as I shrewdly suspect their insipidity and want of feeling or observation) may make them insensible to these light things, (I mean such as characterise and paint nature) yet surely they are as weighty and much more useful than your grave discourses upon the mind, the passions, and what not.”"