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Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing. "Documentary evidence." Macaulay.

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  • 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
  • CONTAINMENT
    That which is contained; the extent; the substance. The containment of a rich man's estate. Fuller.
  • WRITATIVE
    Inclined to much writing; -- correlative to talkative. Pope.
  • CERTIFICATION
    The act of certifying.
  • 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
  • EVIDENCER
    One whi gives evidence.
  • WRIT
    3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth. Chaucer.
  • WRITHLE
    To wrinkle. Shak.
  • CONTAINANT
    A container.
  • CERTIFIER
    One who certifies or assures.
  • WRITERSHIP
    The office of a writer.
  • PERTAIN
    stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
  • 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
  • CERTIFICATE
    1. A written testimony to the truth of any fact; as, certificate of good behavior. 2. A written declaration legally authenticated. Trial by certificate, a trial which the testimony of the person certifying is the only proper criterion of the point
  • CONTAINABLE
    Capable of being contained or comprised. Boyle.
  • 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
  • CONTAINER
    One who, or that which, contains.
  • WRITABILITY
    Ability or capacity to write. Walpole.
  • WRITHEN
    Having a twisted distorted from. A writhen staff his step unstable guides. Fairfax.
  • RECEIVER'S CERTIFICATE
    An acknowledgement of indebtedness made by a receiver under order of court to obtain funds for the preservation of the assets held by him, as for operating a railroad. Receivers' certificates are ordinarily a first lien on the assets, prior to that
  • INEVIDENCE
    Want of evidence; obscurity. Barrow.
  • 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.
  • SELF-CONTAINED
    Having all the essential working parts connected by a bedplate or framework, or contained in a case, etc., so that mutual relations of the parts do not depend upon fastening outside of the machine itself. Self-contained steam engine.

 

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