escript

English

Etymology

Old French

Noun

escript (plural escripts)

  1. (obsolete) A writing.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for escript in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Middle French

Etymology

Old French escrit, with the p added back to reflect the Latin scriptus

Verb

escript (feminine singular escripte, masculine plural escriptz, feminine plural escriptes)

  1. past participle of escrire

Noun

escript m (plural escriptz)

  1. writing
    • 1488, Jean Dupré, Lancelot du Lac, page 66:
      Lois appella les clercz qui mettoient en escript les adventures
      Louis called the clerks who put the adventures in to writing

Descendants
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