charta

American  

[kahr-tuh] / ˈkɑr tə /

noun

Pharmacology.

plural

chartae

1. a strip of paper that is impregnated with a medicinal substance, for external application.

2. Also called chartula, powder paper.  a paper folded so as to form a packet for a powdered medicament.

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Etymology

Origin of charta

before 1000; Old English, for earlier sense of “letter, document” < Medieval Latin; < New Latin, Latin: sheet of paper, document < Greek chártēs papyrus leaf, sheet of paper, literally, something to make marks on; character

Example Sentences

Many hundreds of years ago, he had once told Meggie, people made the bindings for particularly valuable books from the skin of unborn calves, charta virginea non nata, a pretty name for a terrible thing.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke

One soon finds that a menu may be a little modest every-day magna charta of democracy or it may not.

From The Ghost in the White House Some suggestions as to how a hundred million people (who are supposed in a vague, helpless way to haunt the white house) can mak by Lee, Gerald Stanley

The Jews very early availed themselves of the charta pergamena, whereupon to write their Scriptures.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

The rights of the chambers and of the people were also extended by an appendix to the charta signed by Louis XVIII.

From Germany from the Earliest Period Volume 4 by Horrocks, Mrs. George

The magna charta of our liberties affirms that "all men are created equal."

From Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South by Fortune, Timothy Thomas