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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

A distinctive mark; a character; a letter or sign.

[Obs.]

See

In all his dressings,

characts

, titles, forms.

Shakespeare

charact ‎(plural characts)

(obsolete) A letter or character.
(archaic) A magical symbol.
- 1885: 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. — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 15