Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Expressed in writing; not verbal; written.
- Used for writing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Of or pertaining to writing; expressed in writing; used in writing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
writing ; expressed or used in writing.
Etymologies
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Latin scriptorius, from scribere, scriptum to write.
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Examples
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(He himself could write only in printing fashion, in the large scriptory characters of the Ecclesiastical Rubric, not in those of the ordinary kind.) “For example, that scoop there — what does IT say?”
Through Russia 2003
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(He himself could write only in printing fashion, in the large scriptory characters of the Ecclesiastical
Through Russia Maksim Gorky 1902
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"Brothers," said he, "you are to be informed that of wills, duo sunt genera, nuncupatory and scriptory, {77a} that in the scriptory will here before us there is no precept or mention about gold lace, conceditur, but si idem affirmetur de nuncupatorio negatur.
A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706
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