Definition of Scrivened

1. Adjective. Copied in handwriting.

Language type: Archaicism, Archaism
Category relationships: Poesy, Poetry, Verse
Similar to: Written

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scrivened

scripturally
scripturalness
scripture
scriptures
scripturist
scriptwriter
scriptwriters
scriptwriting
scrit
scritch
scritched
scritches
scritching
scrive
scrived
scrivened (current term)
scrivener
scrivener's palsy
scriveners
scrives
scriving
scroag
scroags
scrobble
scrobbled
scrobbles
scrobbling
scrobe
scrobes
scrobicula

Literary usage of Scrivened

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"G— d d—mn all these lawyers ; for here's a mortgage scrivened up to ten skins of parchment; and the king's attorney»general is content with six lines. ..."

2. In Thamseland: Being the Gossiping Record of Rambles Through England from by Henry Wellington Wack (1906)
"We have our own opinion of Geoffrey, and it is that on the starless night when he scrivened this guess he had overdone the rare canary that made the ..."

3. The Diary-letters of Sergt. Peyton Randolph Campbell by Peyton Randolph Campbell, Pratt & Lambert (1919)
"Then inside, in Madame's little dining room, we ate—and in the odd intervals, "Pete" scrivened a bit more. After dinner, we wandered off in search of a ..."

4. Mitteilungen der Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte by Gesellschaft für Kieler Stadtgeschichte (1891)
"... hereditatem ubicunque voluerit et describere ie van der hant to scrivened- et dictus Hinricus stat pro omni defectu. *1218. Illa hereditas, sita in pl. ..."

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