Word Meanings - CHARTA - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper. A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.

Related words: (words related to CHARTA)

• WRITING
  1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or
• MAGNASE BLACK
  A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
• WRITATIVE
  Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
• CHARTA
  Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper. A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See Magna Charta.
• BOOKSELLING
  The employment of selling books.
• BOOKSTAND
  1. A place or stand for the sale of books in the streets; a bookstall. 2. A stand to hold books for reading or reference.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• MAGNALITY
  A great act or event; a great attainment. Sir T. Browne.
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• WRIT
  3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
• BOOKSHOP
  A bookseller's shop.
• WRITHLE
  To wrinkle. Shak.
• MAGNANIMOUSLY
  In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• MAGNANIMOUS
  1. Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror. Be magnanimous in the enterprise. Shak. To give a kingdom hath
• MAGNANIMITY
  The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice,
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• BOOKSHELF
  A shelf to hold books.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• TYPEWRITING
  The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.
• SCANDALUM MAGNATUM
  A defamatory speech or writing published to the injury of a person of dignity; -- usually abbreviated scan. mag.
• UNDERWRITING
  The business of an underwriter,
• FLAGRANT
  1. Flaming; inflamed; glowing; burning; ardent. The beadle's lash still flagrant on their back. Prior. A young man yet flagrant from the lash of the executioner or the beadle. De Quincey. Flagrant desires and affections. Hooker. 2. Actually in
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• INTEGRANT
  Making part of a whole; necessary to constitute an entire thing; integral. Boyle. All these are integrant parts of the republic. Burke. Integrant parts, or particles, of bodies, those smaller particles into which a body may be reduced without loss
• VAGRANTNESS
  State of being vagrant; vagrancy.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• CARBORUNDUM CLOTH; CARBORUNDUM PAPER
  Cloth or paper covered with powdered carborundum.
• FRAGRANT
  fragrance: cf. OF. fragrant. Affecting the olfactory nerves agreeably; sweet of smell; odorous; having or emitting an agreeable perfume. Fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers. Milton. Syn. -- Sweet-smelling; odorous; odoriferous;