Word Meanings - COMMATISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Conciseness in writing. Bp. Horsley.
Related words: (words related to COMMATISM)
- WRITING
1. The act or art of forming letters and characters on paper, wood, stone, or other material, for the purpose of recording the ideas which characters and words express, or of communicating them to others by visible signs. 2. Anything written or - WRITATIVE
Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope. - WRITER
1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer - WRIT
3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer. - WRITHLE
To wrinkle. Shak. - WRITERSHIP
The office of a writer. - WRITHE
to OHG. ridan, Icel. ri, Sw. vrida, Dan. vride. Cf. Wreathe, Wrest, 1. To twist; to turn; now, usually, to twist or turn so as to distort; to wring. "With writhing of a pin." Chaucer. Then Satan first knew pain, And writhed him to and - CONCISENESS
The quality of being concise. - WRITTEN
p. p. of Write, v. - WRITE
to scratch, to score; akin to OS. writan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rizan, Icel. rita to 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material - WRITABILITY
Ability or capacity to write. Walpole. - WRITHEN
Having a twisted distorted from. A writhen staff his step unstable guides. Fairfax. - WRITABLE
Capable of, or suitable for, being written down. - REWRITE
To write again. Young. - TYPEWRITING
The act or art of using a typewriter; also, a print made with a typewriter. - PLAYWRITER
A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky. - STORY-WRITER
1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17. - UNDERWRITING
The business of an underwriter, - UNDERWRITER
One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer. - UNWRITE
To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton. - HANDWRITING
1. The cast or form of writing peculiar to each hand or person; chirography. 2. That which is written by hand; manuscript. The handwriting on the wall, a doom pronounced; an omen of disaster. Dan. v. 5. - OUTWRITE
To exceed or excel in writing. - NEWS-WRITER
One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.