He is characterized by Wood, in Athenae Oxonienses, as a very useful man in his profession, zealous for his religion, and deeply attached to his adopted country.
Changes in the rules were introduced, and the game has been characterized by less roughness and by increased skill.
The cyme, according to its development, has been characterizedas biparous or uniparous.
The proceedings were characterizedby excessive merriment and licentiousness.
At first there is no evidence to prove that these celebrations were characterized by any specially indecorous behaviour; but in the 12th century such behaviour had become the rule.
The family is represented by two flying genera, Anomalurus and Idiurus; the latter containing only one very minute species (shown in the cut) characterized by its small ears and elongated tail.
If the wing was inelastic, every part of it would reverse at precisely the same moment, and its vibration would be characterized by pauses or dead points at the end of the down and up strokes which would be fatal to it as a flying organ.
The burlesque ritual which characterized the Feast of Fools throughout the middle ages was now at its height.
In conjunction with Salter, he established in 1865 the Menevian group (Middle Cambrian) characterized by the trilobite Paradoxides.
The tropical forest is characterized by the trees of the hotter and drier parts of southern India, combined with a few of European type.
The earliest social organization of the human race was characterizedby the absence of the institution of marriage in any form.
They belong to a category which I have characterized as tombs of transition and as signalizing the passage from the use of polished stone to that of metals.
The great majority of the districts, as our map shows, are characterized by a population whose adult men scarcely average five feet four inches (1.
The primeval and Levitical dispensations were specially characterized by visible manifestations, acts, rites and events, embodying, enforcing, and illustrating the great truths which were revealed.
Had no apostasy of man taken place, we are warranted in believing that he would have continued that local, visible presence and intercourse with Adam and his descendants which characterized the earliest period of their existence.
The family, not the individual, characterized the life of that community.
These conditions were met with the same courage and determination which ever characterized the leaders; a rationing of the colony was made which would have done credit to a “Hoover.
She was just as swift and gentle in her care for all the things of every day, as efficient and painstaking, but she did not laugh, and the tiny lines that had characterized her father's blue eyes, began to show distinctly about her own.
The dancers stopped in their stride, the players laid down their cards, the noise of the room ceased with the suddenness that characterized the time and place, for Lost Valley was quick upon the trigger, tragedy often swept in upon hilarity.
There was a deathly white line about her lips, but her eyes blazed with the fire that had characterizedthem from birth, the flickering, unfathomable flame that came and went.
In all of these actions, the remnant of nearly 1200 enlistments charged with that dauntless courage which had characterized them at Woodsonville, at Bardstown, at Dalton and many other brilliant fields of arms.
The South was exhausted of horses, while the Northern cavalry increased in numbers and efficiency, and acquired the audacity which had characterized the Southern.
I wish for you and your gallant State and for all your people in all their good, God-fearing homes continuance of that personal liberty, that material prosperity, that love of the truth which has always characterized them.
We have certainly seen nothing in a journey characterizedby great demonstrations to surpass this magnificent scene.
Then the serious time came when sickness devastated us and disease swept its dread swath, and that dreadful progress of making soldiers was passed through when diseases which should have characterized childhood prostrated and destroyed men.
No material greatness, no wealth, no accumulation of splendor, is to be compared with those humble and homely virtues which have generally characterized our American homes.
In all my journeying in California, where every city has presented some surprise and where each has been characterized by lavish and generous display, I have not seen anything so suddenly created and yet so beautiful.
But I rejoice to know that we are not only geographically neighbors, but that Indiana and Illinois have been neighborly in the high sentiments and purposes which have characterized their people.
Her troops took to the fields of the South that high consecration to liberty which had characterized their fathers in the Revolutionary struggle.
He retained enough of his former reputation as an ally of Parliament to be characterized by Ludlow as "a generous man, and a lover of his country.
Still unsatiated and procrastinating, the Suprema replied with the names of eleven persons, whom it characterized as principal leaders of the tumults and asked him to give such instructions as he pleased.
A considerable portion of the cases in the later years of the Inquisition are characterized as "solicitante y flagelante" and many of them illustrate the easy transition from Illuminism to solicitation.
In 1700 the Toledo tribunal had to deal with a case characterized as "con circonstancias gravísimas," so that we may regard the sentence as representing the extremity of punishment for the offence.
There was moreover, as we have seen, a vast range of propositions in which heresy was only inferential, characterized as scandalous, offensive to pious ears etc.
The same tendency appears in the case of María Rivero, of Valladolid, in 1817, whom the Suprema characterized as erroneously and presumptuously believing herself to be adorned with revelations and special graces.
While awaiting this, however, he severely characterized the frauds of confessors in inducing the dying to impoverish their heirs.
As we can see from the above descriptions, the volcanic activity of Vesuvius is characterized by long periods of rest followed by periods of activity.
But not all mountains are characterized by earthquakes nor are all plains free from them.
The Jamaican earthquake was characterized by marked sinkings of the ground.
But what especially characterized the Lisbon earthquake were the great waves that were produced in the ocean.
The great mountain ranges of the world are generally characterized by unequal slopes, the long gentle slope facing the interior of the continents, and the short, abrupt slopes being turned towards the coast.
Both were characterized by the making of great mountain systems, and were, therefore, especially liable to repetitions of tremendous earthquakes that must have produced enormous waves in the ocean.
Most of it was converted into a marshy lake characterized by thousands of submerged trees.
The Dominicans are characterized as worse than Turks, and more worthy to be resisted, and the author wonders what unjust pope and cowardly emperor had enabled them to impose their yoke on the land.
It advanced step by step, the earlier proceedings, as we have seen both in Florence and Toulouse, being characterized by little regularity.
A noble forgetfulness of self, and mortification to the favour of the world, have characterized all Christ's most approved servants.
Renwick was blamed in his own day by time-servers and backsliders as imprudent; and those who maintain the same testimony even in our times, are characterized as foolish, imprudent, and infatuated.
On Mohammed's escape to Medina, a long series of holy wars began which, like all holy wars, were characterized by extreme brutality.
Nevertheless the news which reached the camp as to the terms suggested by the Barons showed that these werecharacterized by great moderation.
Riot and disorder too often characterized the events of that season.
This simultaneous advance showed a masterly generalship that was wholly unlike the headstrong recklessness which had characterized his actions only the previous year.
Observance of this rule will prevent much of the rowdyism that hascharacterized the game of baseball.
Neglect of this precaution will cause a very annoying tangle that is sometimes call a "backlash" but more often characterized by much harsher names by the impatient fisherman who has the misfortune to experience it.
Sophia's form was slight and sylph-like; her every movement was characterized by exquisite modesty and grace, and her voice had all the liquid melody of the Aeolean harp.
He is characterized by short, crisp curls all over his body, with the exception of the head, strongly suggesting the presence of poodle or Irish water spaniel blood in his make-up.
All of them may be characterized by the general term of dimorphism.
The peloric variety of this plant ischaracterized by its producing only peloric flowers.
From this same conclusion we may further deduce some explanation of the hereditary races characterized by monstrosities.
In this respect no other plant equals the corn or maize, as the kernels remain together on the spike, and as it has more than one variety characterized by the color, or constitution, or other qualities of the grains.
He never was a great talker, and in the decline of life retained much of that dignified sedateness which had characterized his meridian.
Colonel Burr accorded the palm of eloquence to General Hamilton, whom he frequently characterized as a man of strong and fertile imagination, of rhetorical and even poetical genius, and a powerful declaimer.
The Bricklayers' union was characterized as "the meanest organization on God's green footstool," and it was remarked that it would be a good thing for Chicago if it was wiped out of existence.
The age in which we live is remarkably characterized by false systems and impious theories.
And as the whole body is justlycharacterized by the major part; this church is described as "dead.
Even in the rare instances of sports, with the hereditary tendency very strongly implanted, crossing must be prevented with other breeds, or if not prevented the best characterized of the half-bred offspring must be carefully selected.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "characterized" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
