单词 | written-on |
释义 | > as lemmaswritten-on C1. With prepositions, forming adjectives (and occasionally nouns) as written-about, written-of, written-on, written-to. ΘΠ society > communication > correspondence > sending items > [noun] > addressing letter > addressee superscription1464 written-to1747 addressee1794 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa II. xix. 117 [The letter] was written..On one knee, kneeling with the other. Not from reverence to the written-to, however. 1832 New Monthly Mag. 34 277 Medical opinion as to the essence of this much thought of, and much talked of, and much written about malady [sc. cholera], is threefold. 1886 Amer. Lancet Apr. 121/2 The excuse and justification..for this paper upon a much written-of subject, is that it is a compilation of recorded facts. 1933 New Yorker 28 Oct. 25/3 Roosevelt, the most written-to of all Presidents, gets an average of 3,800 letters a day. 1955 E. Bowen World of Love iv. 77 The written-on blue envelope. 2006 Weekly Standard 6 Mar. Writing to Woolf (the most written-to friend in this collection), he imagines..Duncan Grant, then his lover, running off with his brother. 2010 @pawsitivlycorky 22 Feb. in twitter.com (accessed 23 Mar. 2021) Oh my God. Was it necessary to tear all the written-on pages out of my notebooks? < as lemmas |
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