Verb (used with object), : Rich metaphors characterize his poetry. ,He characterized her in a few well-chosen words. ,to characterize him as a coward.    From Dictionary.com. 

It's a shame that the moment Cameron says anything it is immediately "characterised" as something else or twisted to create a hostile soundbite.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tony Blair: The Next Labour Prime Minister?] Reference

"Of course not," rejoined Don Mariano, with an air of hospitable simplicity such as characterised the earlier ages.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tiger Hunter] Reference

To be successful, the ingredient or food must be sufficiently defined (a dairy claim was rejected because the types of dairy products were not, as EFSA terms it, 'characterised').    From Wordnik.com.  [FoodNavigator RSS] Reference

| Page 34: characterised standardised to characterized |.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference

A totally different spirit characterised training in France.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

Few funerals have been characterised by greater impressiveness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hero of the Humber or the History of the Late Mr. John Ellerthorpe] Reference

If by chance a stern and ruthless person has characterised Bartolomeo de.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

(Not necessarily dead.) (b) Involution forms characterised by loss of staining power.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

Lyons are characterised by the enormous size of the stones of which they are composed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

From the Scriptures we find that he will be characterised by some twenty peculiarities.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Ten Tribes, and 1882] Reference

He said the evidence was characterised by "very significant limitations and shortcomings".    From Wordnik.com.  [Legacy of entrapment is a record of great stories with few convictions] Reference

Headings on the original characterised Fidel Castro as saying that communism does not work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fidel Castro says his economic system is failing] Reference

What has all along characterised these valuable experiments has been their practical nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

It seems quite as often to happen in plants characterised by their deficiencies in this respect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference

Persuasion and perseverance characterised de Marco's career, which spanned more than five decades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guido de Marco obituary] Reference

The belligerence, depression and arrogance that characterised him during the original trial was gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago judge tells Conrad Black he cannot leave the US] Reference

Germans, Russians and Greeks were there; and each vessel was characterised by some nautical peculiarity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference

Gneiss is a similar mixture, but characterised by the predominance of mica, and by its banded structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference

Health anxiety is characterised by the excessive seeking of reassurance, from doctors or from family members.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health anxiety is not a joke – it can ruin lives] Reference

It was received with the intrepidity which had, all throughout the trial, characterised the soldier and the man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference

Religious influence characterised the embroideries of England practically from the ninth to the sixteenth centuries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference

The period was characterised also by the lively discussion of first principles, in which Driesch took a leading part.    From Wordnik.com.  [Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology] Reference

A peculiar degree of darkness characterised these closing days of November, and with rain and mud put an end to active operations.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry] Reference

The regard to her toilette which had characterised her in better days still clung to her, and made her neat and tidy in misfortune.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cat and Dog Memoirs of Puss and the Captain] Reference

If a woman's real self is revealed in her epistolary style, finesse, good-humor, and sprightliness were characterised in this note.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

He published a collection of musical compositions, to which was annexed a portrait of himself, characterised by three lines from Milton.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference

After watching him a moment, he suddenly commenced climbing a large stem near him, with the marvellous rapidity that characterised all his movements.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

He characterised their pretensions as subversive of the prerogatives of the Crown, and indicative of a desire to have the absolute control of the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1] Reference

They are characterised, for one thing, by the comparatively small quantity of nitrogen they remove from the soil -- less than either leguminous or root crops.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference

Carse of Gowrie being characterised by a large quantity of potash and soda, indicating an important difference in the materials from which they have been formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference

They are all characterised by the presence, in considerable quantity, of all the essential constituents of plants, in a state in which they may be readily absorbed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference

We have produced them by wet and dry methods, varying in brilliancy and beauty, but characterised generally by want of body, and frequently by a smalt-like grittiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference

The only summons he received, however, was from his tailor, and, with the unfailing judgment and good sense that characterised him, he withdrew once more into the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of "Punch"] Reference

Mica is a very widely distributed mineral, and two varieties of it are distinguished by mineralogists, one of which is characterised by the large quantity of magnesia it contains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference