† unwritadj.
= unwritten adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [adjective] > not written or recorded > of laws, etc.
unwrit1485
unwrittenc1485
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keeping from publication > [adjective] > not written or recorded
unwritten1362
unsetc1445
unpenned1587
unlettered1633
illiterate1645
unwrit1656
nonscript1657
imperscriptible1791
1485–6 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 320 in Parl. Papers (C. 4576-I) XLII. 1 The..usages and privieleges..that bene writte and unwritt.
1613 G. Chapman Reuenge Bussy D'Ambois ii. sig. D2 Gods vnwrit Edicts.
1656 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) II. 51 [A letter] that had been better unwritt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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adj.1485- to fill a chair
- to fill a person's bonnet
- to fill a person's boots
- to fill a person's shoes
- to fill a place
- to fill a seat
- to fill a ship's bottom
- to fill about
- to fill away
- to fill fill full the measure of
- to fill forth
- to fill full
- to go togethers
- to go troppo
- to go under
- to go under the etc of
- to go under the name of
- to go under the title of
- to go underground
- to go unpunished
- to go unto the worse
- to go up
- to go up and down like a bride's nightie
- to go up in smoke
- to go up king street