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The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author.

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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
  • 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.
  • ILLUSTRATIVELY
    By way of illustration or elucidation. Sir T. Browne.
  • ILLUSTRATIVE
    1. Tending or designed to illustrate, exemplify, or elucidate. 2. Making illustrious.
  • AUTHORITY
    1. Legal or rightful power; a right to command or to act; power exercised buy a person in virtue of his office or trust; dominion; jurisdiction; authorization; as, the authority of a prince over subjects, and of parents over children; the authority
  • WRITERSHIP
    The office of a writer.
  • AUTHORESS
    A female author. Glover. Note: The word is not very much used, author being commonly applied to a female writer as well as to a male.
  • AUTHORSHIP
    1. The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author. 2. Source; origin; origination; as, the authorship of a book or review, or of an act, or state of affairs.
  • 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
  • AUTHOR
    1. To occasion; to originate. Such an overthrow . . . I have authored. Chapman. 2. To tell; to say; to declare. More of him I dare not author. Massinger.
  • ILLUSTRATION
    1. The act of illustrating; the act of making clear and distinct; education; also, the state of being illustrated, or of being made clear and distinct. 2. That which illustrates; a comparison or example intended to make clear or apprehensible,
  • 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
  • AUTHORIZABLE
    Capable of being authorized. Hammond.
  • AUTHORIZED
    1. Possessed of or endowed with authority; as, an authorized agent. 2. Sanctioned by authority. The Authorized Version of the Bible is the English translation of the Bible published in 1611 under sanction of King James I. It was "appointed to be
  • WRITABILITY
    Ability or capacity to write. Walpole.
  • AUTHORITATIVE
    1. Having, or proceeding from, due authority; entitled to obedience, credit, or acceptance; determinate; commanding. The sacred functions of authoritative teaching. Barrow. 2. Having an air of authority; positive; dictatorial; peremptory; as, an
  • 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.
  • INAUTHORITATIVE
    Without authority; not authoritative.
  • DISAUTHORIZE
    To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. W. Wotton.
  • 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.

 

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