Word Meanings - DOCUMENTARY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Pertaining to written evidence; contained or certified in writing. "Documentary evidence." Macaulay.
Related words: (words related to DOCUMENTARY)
- 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.