manuscript
adjEtymology
From Medieval Latin manūscrīptum (“writing by hand”), a calque of Germanic origin: compare Middle Low German hantschrift (“manuscript, document”), Middle Dutch hantscrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1451), Old High German hantgiskrīb (“handwriting, document, manuscript”), Middle High German hantschrift, hantgeschrift (“manuscript”) (c. 1450), Old English handġewrit (“what is written by hand, deed, contract, manuscript”) (before 1150), Old Norse handrit (“manuscript”) (before 1300). Not found in Classical Latin.
- borrowed from manūscrīptus
Definitions
Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically…
Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced.
A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not…
A book, composition or any other document, written by hand (or manually typewritten), not mechanically reproduced.
- In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
- The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even…
A single, original copy of a book, article, composition etc, written by hand or even printed, submitted as original for (copy-editing and) reproductive publication.
The neighborhood
- synonymhandwrit
- synonymautograph
- synonymhandwriting
- neighborscript
- neighbortypescript
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for manuscript. 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