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uncharactered en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + charactered.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Not marked with text characters.
    • The one to the east—called the Uncharactered Tablet—is more than 6 meters high and was originally left blank under Wu Zetian's will, as she wanted later generations to evaluate her life […] 2020, Giulio Magli, Sacred Landscapes of Imperial China, page 81:
  2. (not-comparable, obsolete) Illiterate.
    • In the summer a wretched uncharactered itinerant derives a scanty and precarious existence by wandering from parish to parish, and opening a school in some ditch covered with heath and furze, […] 1806, John Carr, The Stranger in Ireland, page 158: