charactery

Here is a shell; 'tis pearly blank to me, Nor mark'd with any sign or charactery– Canst thou read aught?

So in Keats: "Before high-piled books in charactery Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain."

She became very pale, and a rigid and desolate charactery took possession of her face.

The teeming tree Had swollen and green'd the pious charactery, But not ta'en out.