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/ˈmæn.jəˌskɹɪpt/ · adjective
Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced..
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
The ability of a segment of a glass sphere to magnify whatever is placed before it was known around the year 1000, when the spherical segment was called a reading stone,[…]. Scribes, illuminators, and scholars held such stones directly over manuscript pages as an aid in seeing what was being written, drawn, or read.
The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason. The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.
Use manuscript when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Manuscript means Handwritten, or by extension manually typewritten, as opposed to being mechanically reproduced..
Common synonyms include handwrit, autograph, handwriting, holograph.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the old days, to my commonplace and unobserving mind, he gave no evidences of genius whatsoever. He never read me any of his manuscripts, […], and therefore my lack of detection of his promise may in some degree be pardoned.
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