WOTD – 19 February 2022 From <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> (“(archaic) written”) + <span class="searchmatch">large</span>, from the poem “On the New Forces of Conscience under the Long Parliament” in Poems, &c...
<span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">larger</span> comparative form of <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">large</span>: more <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">large</span>...
<span class="searchmatch">writ</span> largest superlative form of <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">large</span>: most <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">large</span>...
From <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> (“written”) + small, by analogy with <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">large</span>. <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> small (comparative <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> smaller, superlative <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> smallest) Used other than figuratively...
attachment <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of execution <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of habeas corpus <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of inquiry <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of mandamus <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of privilege <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of prohibition <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of right <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> of summons <span class="searchmatch">writ</span>-room...
<span class="searchmatch">writ</span> room, writroom From <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> + room. <span class="searchmatch">writ</span>-room (plural <span class="searchmatch">writ</span>-rooms) A room where <span class="searchmatch">writs</span>, writings, or written records are housed or kept; a law library...
ultra-<span class="searchmatch">large</span>-scale ultra <span class="searchmatch">large</span> scale integration very <span class="searchmatch">large</span> crude carrier very-<span class="searchmatch">large</span>-scale very-<span class="searchmatch">large</span>-scale integration very <span class="searchmatch">large</span> scale integration <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> large...
there would inevitably be a finite number of Class 66s it could source from elsewhere, and a limit to other locomotives it could re-power. <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">large</span>...
town bound by a chain of frozen lakes in midwinter, Framingham is nonetheless an iconic place <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">large</span> in the history of medicine. Framingham Pigot...
wolves, was what I call dogginess. Dogginess is the essence of dogdom <span class="searchmatch">writ</span> <span class="searchmatch">large</span>. Clearly the first dogs had dogginess, or we would not recognize them...