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handwritten

adj

Etymology

From hand + written.

  1. derived from *wrey-✻ — “to rip, tear”
  2. inherited from *wrītaną✻ — “to carve, write”
  3. inherited from *wrītan✻
  4. inherited from wrītan
  5. inherited from writen
  6. suffixed as written — “write + en”
  7. compounded as handwritten — “hand + written”

Definitions

  1. Written with a person's hand, as opposed to typed.

    • The bible was used by Presley throughout his life until his death on 16 August 1977 and contains his handwritten notes, thoughts and annotations.
    • Dr Richard Beeching's handwritten draft of his report survives in the National Archives.

  2. past participle of handwrite

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for handwritten. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA