The same absence of fresh-water shells characterises the Azores, where, however, there is one indigenous water-beetle.
The connection of this predominant instinct with the elaborate and unmatched attention to form which characterises them is a psychological question very interesting to discuss, but hardly suitable to these pages.
Another and very serious fault, arising partly from temperament and partly from circumstances, was the want of needful pains and deliberation which characterises most of Diderot's work.
The stiffness which characterises much mediaeval and almost all fifteenth-century work has disappeared in great measure.
The strange bird's-eye view of conduct and motives whichcharacterises the Maxims is already visible in them, as well as the profundity of insight which accompanies width of range.
But, ere he took that step, he sate down, with the usual caution which characterises his race, to ponder upon the subject.
It owes its origin to shifting currents, such as the ebb and flow of the tide, and very often characterises deposits which have been formed in shallow water.
The consciousness of human limitation or nothingness which is united with the idea of this being, is by no means a religious consciousness; on the contrary, it characterises sceptics, materialists, and pantheists.
The longitudinal type characterises such genera as Vibrio, Filaria, Gordius, and all the annulate animals.
Each type of organisation characterises one of the big groups of animals; the lesser groups represent "grade" modifications of the type.
And this, with most, is peculiarly marked in the turn of the head, the outline of the shoulders, and the ineffable something that characterises the postures of each individual in repose.
It was not till 1880, when the dyke above referred to was being repaired, that the special feature which now characterises this settlement became known.
On the other hand, Mr. Böll makes mention of only one station, which he characterises as the largest in Lake Constance, covering some 30 acres.
Although he characterises Luther’s ideas as “wholly the outcome of the Pauline spirit” (p.
Owing to the fact that the jocose element which, in season and out of season, so frequently characterises Luther’s manner of speaking is lost sight of, his real meaning is often misunderstood.
To resemble, to be like in manners; especially as denoting that similarity which characterises the same stock or family; with the prep.
Denoting that peculiar look which characterisesan idiot or a lunatic, S.
Aristotle characterises these regulations of the Platonic community as oligarchical, and remarks that this is in contradiction to the principle with which Plato set out--that it ought to be a compound of monarchy and democracy.
Plato himself (in the Sophistes)[11] characterises the theories of these philosophers as fables recited to an audience of children, without any care to ensure a rational comprehension and assent.
And here, before leaving these illustrations, and especially this last one, let us not omit to notice how clearly they exhibit that increasingly active consensus of the sciences which characterises their advancing development.
It must be remembered that all this is made possible from the fact of the remarkable uniformity of ideas that characterises the various stages of Hebrew religion.
One of the gentlemen looks at our order, and, with that unpretending dignity which characterises the English, he turns round and opens some of the iron safes.
The ambition of free self-government, which characterises the English, is altogether unknown to the French.
Professor Piazzi Smyth characterises the elevated region as cold enough at night, and stormy beyond measure in winter, when the south-wester, or equatorial upper current, produces a fearful climate.
That natural politeness which characterises the various nations distinguished by wearing what is termed the Malayan kris, is no where more forcibly exhibited than among the inhabitants of Celebes.
Their village settlements constitute detached societies, under their local chief and priest, and the same internal concord prevails in these little associations which characterises patriarchial tribes.
Barth characterises the somnambulist as “a living automaton in whom conscious will is for the time being destroyed.
Oedema of the skin which characterises thyroid patients is by no means usual in old age.
The outer wall is composed of formations ranged in festoons of stalactites--not smooth and transparent, but opaque white, and marked with all the wonderful elaboration which characterises zoophytic work in the coral reefs of the Southern seas.
It rivals the Imperial Cave, which, however, is commonly regarded as the more attractive, and displays a more dazzling magnificence than that which characterises either the Arch or the Elder Cave.
Just beyond is a crisp, velvety floor, like that which characterises a chamber previously described, but not of the same colour.
There must be a specific kind of misery which characterises the proletariat.
What characterises the antecedent history of the social movement everywhere is, as I have already said, its invariable similarity.
As they glared into each other's faces, each felt surprised to see little or nothing of the evidence of that deadly hatred which usually characterises implacable foes.
It might not be too much to say that the old principle of carrying a scheme into execution only when there are sufficient subscriptions still characterises the operations of the institution.
There is something very beautiful in the prophet's abandoning the attempt to find any adjective of quality which adequately characterises the peace of which he has been speaking.
To the influence of His character more than to any other cause may be traced the change in the perspective, so to speak, of Virtue, which characterises modern notions of perfection as contrasted with antique ones.
Biot gives this fiction as a true story, which happened some years after the publication of the Principia; and he characterises the accident as having deprived the sciences forever of the fruit of so much of Newton’s labours.
Professor Ansted, in his Ancient World, thus characterises this phenomenon: These movements, described in a few words, were doubtless going on for many thousands and tens of thousands of revolutions of our planet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "characterises" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
