Characts

Word CHARACTS
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This latter class are sometimes called "characts," as an example of which may be mentioned the Jewish phylacteries. ❋ Unknown (1969)

Ala al-Din and his wife Zubaydah, the lutist, saying, “I conjure thee by the virtue of the names and talismans and characts engraver on this jewel, rise up with us, O Couch!” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Allah; and, when the skiff came up to me, I saw therein a man of brass with a tablet of lead on his breast inscribed with talismans and characts; and I embarked without uttering a word. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Now among the precious stones was a round amulet of the handi-work of the masters,290 weighing half a pound: it was red of the brightest, a carnelian on both whose sides were graven characts and characters, like the tracks of ants; but I knew not its worth. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They walked on inland, till they were far enough from the ship to be out of sight, when Bahram sat down and taking from his pocket a kettle-drum30 of copper and a silken strap, worked in gold with characts, beat the drum with the strap, until there arose a cloud of dust from the further side of the waste. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Then I fell asleep under the dome, and heard in my dream a mysterious Voice262 saying, O son of Khazib! when thou wakest from thy sleep dig under thy feet and thou shalt find a bow of brass and three leaden arrows, inscribed with talismans and characts. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Quoth Abu al-Hasan: "On condition that thou swear to me by the characts on the seal of Solomon, David's son (on the twain be the peace!) that thou wilt not suffer thine Ifrits to make fun of me." ❋ Naipaul, V.S. (1981)

A book of such charms, of that era, taken from the pocket of a moss-trooper or bog-trotter, contained among other things a recipe for the cure of intermittent fever by certain barbarous characts. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)

E.W. Lane, in "Modern Egyptians," says that the composition of these characts is founded chiefly upon magic, and devolves usually upon the village schoolmasters. ❋ Robert Means Lawrence (N/A)

He charms; nor characts, spells nor gramarye * May fend the glances of those eyne from thee: ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Then, when it was morning he took seat upon the throne of his kingship and summoned the Astrologers and the Scribes of characts and Students of the skies and told them what had been accomplished to him in his night and what words he had heard from the Voice; whereupon the Sages one and all struck tables of sand and considered the ascendant. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Then he walked on a few steps farther beside the river, till he came upon two little boys of the sons of the sorcerers, before whom lay a rod of copper graven with talismans, and beside it a skull-cap [FN#162] of leather, made of three gores and wroughten in steel with names and characts. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

They walked on inland, till they were far enough from the ship to be out of sight, when Bahram sat down and taking from his pocket a kettle-drum [FN#30] of copper and a silken strap, worked in gold with characts, beat the drum with the strap, until there arose a cloud of dust from the further side of the waste. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

I gave thanks to Allah; and, when the skiff came up to me, I saw therein a man of brass with a tablet of lead on his breast inscribed with talismans and characts; and I embarked without uttering a word. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Now among the precious stones was a round amulet of the handi-work of the masters, [FN#290] weighing half a pound: it was red of the brightest, a carnelian on both whose sides were graven characts and characters, like the tracks of ants; but I knew not its worth. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Ionian [FN#142] characters on leaves of gold bezel'd with jewels; together with a book setting forth the properties of stones and herbs and minerals, as well as the use of characts and talismans and the canons of the art of alchymy; and he found a third volume which treated of the art of cutting and setting rubies and other precious stones and of the preparation of poisons and theriacks. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Zubaydah, the lutist, saying, "I conjure thee by the virtue of the names and talismans and characts engraver on this jewel, rise up with us, O Couch!" ❋ Anonymous (1855)

a rod of copper graven with talismans, and beside it a skull-cap162 of leather, made of three gores and wroughten in steel with names and characts. ❋ Unknown (2006)

They looked at him and prescribed him ptisanes and diet-drinks, simples and medicinal waters and wrote him characts and incensed him with Nadd and aloes-wood and ambergris three days’ space; but his malady persisted three months, till King Asim was wroth with the leaches and said to them, Woe to you, O dogs! ❋ Unknown (2006)

a bow of brass and three leaden arrows, inscribed with talismans and characts. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

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