Character
In general, a character is a distinctive significant mark or feature. The word originates from the Greek word χαρακτηρ via the Latin word character, an instrument for marking or graving. The word is used in several specific senses:
- A person's moral predispositions or attitudes; see moral character[?] and Losers in literature.
- In Catholicism, a supernatural mark made on a person's soul by some sacraments; see sacramental character.
- A fictional person from a book, play, or other fictional work; see fictional character.
- A grapheme such as a letter, Chinese ideogram, numeral; or punctuation mark.
- In computing, a unit of information in computer storage or communications; see character (computing).
- In mathematics, the word is used in two related senses:
- a homomorphism from an abelian group into the multiplicative group of the field of complex numbers.
- a function that describes a group representation by associating to each group element the trace of the corresponding matrix. This generalizes the above meaning to non-abelian groups.
- See also Dirichlet character.
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that led to Hades--the kingdom of the dead--they offered sacrifices to
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Broods darkly o'er the shadowy realm;
Men say, and 'neath its foliage cling,
There Centaurs, Scyllas, fish and maid,
CONINGTON, _AEneid_, BOOK VI.
AEneas was about to rush on these monsters with his sword, when the
Then they came to the Styx--the river of Hades, over which the
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The watery passage Charon keeps
CONINGTON, _AEneid_, BOOK VI.
No living being was permitted to enter Charon's boat, or to cross the
obtained only by special favor of some powerful god, and few had been
rites, were refused admission to the boat, until they had wandered on
inquired why some were ferried over, while others were driven back,
Deprived of sepulchres and funeral due;
He ferries over to the further coast;
With such whose bones are not composed in graves.
At length, their penance done, are wafted o'er."
Palinurus, who told the hero that he had not been drowned, or plunged
He had fallen overboard, he said, and kept afloat for three.
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