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writ·ten  (rtn)
v.
Past participle of write.
written
Verb
the past participle of write
Adjective
recorded in writing: written permission
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Adj.1.written - set down in writing in any of various ways; "written evidence"
scripted, written - written as for a film or play or broadcast
spoken - uttered through the medium of speech or characterized by speech; sometimes used in combination; "a spoken message"; "the spoken language"; "a soft-spoken person"; "sharp-spoken"
2.written - systematically collected and written down; "written laws"
unwritten - based on custom rather than documentation; "an unwritten law"; "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence
3.written - written as for a film or play or broadcast
scripted


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Indeed, the wishes of my little correspondents have been considered as carefully as possible, and if the story is not exactly as you would have written it yourselves, you must remember that a story has to be a story before it can be written down, and the writer cannot change it much without spoiling it.
The Road to Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
These first books we call Manuscripts, from the Latin words manus, a hand, and scribere, to write, for they were all written by hand.
English Literature For Boys And Girls by Marshall, H.E. View in context
My residence was more favorable, not only to thought, but to serious reading, than a university; and though I was beyond the range of the ordinary circulating library, I had more than ever come within the influence of those books which circulate round the world, whose sentences were first written on bark, and are now merely copied from time to time on to linen paper.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
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