Chartaceous: Definition and part of speech

Chartaceous

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. The constitution, or fundamental law, of the French monarchy, as established on the restoration of Louis XVIII., in 1814.

n. The letting or hiring a vessel by special contract, or the contract or instrument whereby a vessel is hired or let; as, a ship is offered for sale or charter. See Charter party, below.
n. A written evidence in due form of things done or granted, contracts made, etc., between man and man; a deed, or conveyance.
n. An instrument in writing, from the sovereign power of a state or country, executed in due form, bestowing rights, franchises, or privileges.
n. An act of a legislative body creating a municipal or other corporation and defining its powers and privileges. Also, an instrument in writing from the constituted authorities of an order or society (as the Freemasons), creating a lodge and defining its powers.
n. A special privilege, immunity, or exemption.

imp. & p. p. of Charter
a. Granted or established by charter; having, or existing under, a charter; having a privilege by charter.

n. A well known public school and charitable foundation in the building once used as a Carthusian monastery (Chartreuse) in London.

n. The principles of a political party in England (1838-48), which contended for universal suffrage, the vote by ballot, annual parliaments, equal electoral districts, and other radical reforms, as set forth in a document called the People’s Charter.