Definition of Charta

1. n. Material on which instruments, books, etc., are written; parchment or paper.

Definition of Charta

1. a charter [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Charta

charrettes
charrier
charriest
charring
charro
charros
charrs
charrus
charry
chars
charset
charsets
chart
chart-topping
chart datum
charta (current term)
chartable
chartaceous
chartas
chartbook
chartbooks
chartbuster
charted
charter
charter member
charter pilot
charter school
charter schools
chartered
chartered accountant

Literary usage of Charta

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pausaniae Graeciae Descriptio by Pausanias (1825)
"8 mai. charta impress. 3 Thlr. 12 fir. — — Idem liber, charta script. ... Idem liber charta script. 2 Thlr. Eiusdem idem liber in usum ..."

2. Constitutional History of the House of Lords by Luke Owen Pike (1894)
"X. enactment touching the Peers was concerned, by the idea The Act that it went beyond the provisions of Magna charta in its formally details. ..."

3. American Educational Monthly (1865)
"A school-room with these twenty-two charta suspended on Its walle is converted frero what IB too often a prison of dreariness to a picture-gallery of ..."

4. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England: Or, A Commentary ...by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham by Edward Coke, Thomas Littleton, Matthew Hale, Heneage Finch Nottingham (1823)
"It is in our bookes called charta Libertatum, el Communis Libertas ... This statute of Magna charta is but a confirmation or restitution of the common law, ..."

5. Government by Commissions Illegal and Pernicious: The Nature and Effects of by Joshua Toulmin Smith (1849)
"It is important, however, that it should always be remembered that Magna charta broached no new theories of the rights of man, preached no new and ..."

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