Bewritten
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Bewritten is an adjective meaning Written about; depicted; portrayed; described.
Meaning
Written about; depicted; portrayed; described.
More Meanings
- past participle of bewrite.
Example Sentences
In the course of his career he has visited India, and now presents us with his recent but somewhat hasty notes on the people, plague, hunting, pagodas, mills, morals, and canals of that much bewritten land.
If I live a thousand years, I do not believe I shall ever do a more virtuous deed than I did long ago in staying at home for the sake of a quarter of a dollar when the rest of the school went to see Tom Thumb, the late bewritten bridegroom.
He was wholly different from the much-writing and much-bewritten " Field Naturalist" of the type with which we have lately become painfully familiar, the man who is all eyes and tongue but has no brains, thinking everything he sees is seen for the first time, [...]
Therewith he went to his desk, opened it, and reached far behind to a drawer at the back; this also he unlocked with a secret key and drew something out, richly besene, highly valuable, made of yvorie, framed in gold and splinters of precious stones, and closely bewritten.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include depainted, depictured, impapyrated, personative, scenical, historiated.
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