uncharactered

English

Etymology

un- +‎ charactered

Adjective

uncharactered (not comparable)

  1. Not marked with text characters.
    • 2020, Giulio Magli, Sacred Landscapes of Imperial China, page 81:
      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 […]
  2. (obsolete) Illiterate.
    • 1806, John Carr, The Stranger in Ireland, page 158:
      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, […]
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