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Of, relating, or characteristic of writing (i.e., of that which has been written). examples
Having been written. examples
past participle of write quotations examples
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.
2013 September-October, Henry Petroski, “The Evolution of Eyeglasses”, in American Scientist