Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In pharm.; A folded paper containing a powder; also, a dose of any medicinal powder.
- noun A piece of bibulous paper impregnated with some medicinal substance.
- noun Literally, a paper or parchment; a charter. See
chart . - noun Hence— A general term for any fundamental constitution which guarantees personal rights and civil privileges.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.
- noun A charter or deed; a writing by which a grant is made. See
magna charta .
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Examples
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This technique of showing what a painting might eventually look like had been used for centuries and because it used paper it had been called cartone in Italian from the Latin word charta which in turn came from Greek khartes originally meaning paper from papyrus.
OUPblog 2008
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From adulation of Augustus it was also called charta augusta and charta livia.
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The great basis of it is anterior to the date of the Magna charta, which is the oldest statute extant.
Letters 1760
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Card entered English in the early fourteenth century by a similar route: from the French carte, which was from the Latin charta, for “leaf of paper.”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Card entered English in the early fourteenth century by a similar route: from the French carte, which was from the Latin charta, for “leaf of paper.”
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Bingham said three times in 1866 that “due process” was the same process found under chapter 39 of the charta.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Cato brief in McDonald v. Chicago 2009
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Joe: Bingham said three times in 1866 that “due process” was the same process found under chapter 39 of the charta.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Cato brief in McDonald v. Chicago 2009
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Bingham said three times in 1866 that “due process” was the same process found under chapter 39 of the charta.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Cato brief in McDonald v. Chicago 2009
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Crimes and bills of rights in Magna charta contexts, by Abraham J Levin
OpEdNews - Quicklink: Bill Sparkman: Tragic Details About Census Worker Found Hanged 2009
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Guantanamo Bay is against every law from the human rights charta, but noone is doing anything against it, or better, can do anything against it, because America "the great world police" is saying so.
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