Crossword clues for unwritten
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unwritten \Un*writ"ten\, a.
Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten agreements.
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Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper.
Unwritten doctrines (Theol.), such doctrines as have been handed down by word of mouth; oral or traditional doctrines.
Unwritten law. [Cf. L. lex non scripta.] That part of the law of England and of the United States which is not derived from express legislative enactment, or at least from any enactment now extant and in force as such. This law is now generally contained in the reports of judicial decisions. See Common law, under Common.
Unwritten laws, such laws as have been handed down by tradition or in song. Such were the laws of the early nations of Europe.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
1 Not written. 2 oral or otherwise communicated without writing. 3 implicit or understood but not formally articulated. 4 Containing no writing; blank. v
(past participle of unwrite English)
WordNet
adj. based on custom rather than documentation; "an unwritten law"; "rites...so ancient that they well might have had their unwritten origins in Aurignacian times"- J.L.T.C.Spence [ant: written]
using speech rather than writing; "an oral tradition"; "an oral agreement" [syn: oral]
said or done without having been planned or written in advance; "he made a few ad-lib remarks" [syn: ad-lib, spontaneous]
Wikipedia
Unwritten is a 2004 album by Natasha Bedingfield.
Unwritten may also refer to:
- "Unwritten" (House), a 2010 episode of TV series House
- "Unwritten" (song), a song by Natasha Bedingfield
- The Unwritten, an American comic book series
- Unwritten, art book by David Shapiro (poet) and Lucio Pozzi 1977
"Unwritten" is the third episode of the seventh season of the American medical drama House. It originally aired on October 4, 2010.
Unwritten is the debut studio album by English singer-songwriter Natasha Bedingfield. It was released in the United Kingdom on 6 September 2004, where it debuted at number one, and in the United States on 2 August 2005, where it debuted at number twenty-six. It spawned the singles " Single", " These Words", " Unwritten", which later served as the theme song from MTV reality series The Hills, " I Bruise Easily" and " The One That Got Away" (which was only released in North America). The song "Drop Me in the Middle" featured rapper Bizarre of D12 on the international and UK versions of the album, but the U.S. version featured rapper/singer Estelle. In 2006, the album was re-released in North America with new album artwork and a slightly altered track listing. The album is replayed on November 29, 2007.
"Unwritten" is a song by English singer-songwriter Natasha Bedingfield for her debut studio album of the same name. It was released on 29 November 2004 as the third single from the record. The song was written by Bedingfield, Danielle Brisebois, and Wayne Rodrigues and produced by Wayne Rodrigues and Danielle Brisebois. The single was released as the album's third UK single (November 2004) and second US single (September 2005). In 2006, "Unwritten" became the theme song for the reality television series The Hills. It reached number five on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming her first top-ten hit in the United States.
Usage examples of "unwritten".
From this overlordship of the bachelors there had gradually risen a system of fagging, such as is or was practised in the great English public schools--enforced services exacted from the younger lads--which at the time Myles came to Devlen had, in the five or six years it had been in practice, grown to be an absolute though unwritten law of the body--a law supported by all the prestige of long-continued usage.
Cleggett, the Brooklynite-this person whom young reporters conceived of as the staid, dry prophet of the dusty Fact--was secretly a mighty reservoir of unwritten, unacted, unlived, unspoken romance.
It was pretty much an unwritten rule of deCom conduct in the Uncleared to offer that much succour you never knew when it might be you but the competitive standoffishness of the trade made for grudging adherence.
He had also gained such a bad reputation that there was an unwritten law in the British royalty that no heir to the throne should ever be named John.
In keeping with the unwritten rule of the time that any display of ambition would be unseemly, Adams kept silent.
Neither Goldoni nor Gallina has charged the Venetian language with so much literature as to take from the people the shelter of their almost unwritten tongue.
The Korban Bath Rules will probably remain unwritten for many a day, but I earnestly hope that before next summer the traditions and etiquette of bath-warfare as between individual hotel-visitors will be codified and issued in an intelligible form.
Meanwhile, my room at the Seal Rock Inn is filling up with people who seem on the verge of hysteria at the sight of me still sitting here wasting time on a rambling introduction, with the final chapter still unwritten and the presses scheduled to start rolling in twenty-four hours.
Disney World, but the specimens he brought back are still unanalyzed, the paper unwritten.
They had an unwritten but generally known policy that allowed combatants to fight over control of communications without actually damaging the ansibles or their platforms, with ISC committing to cooperation with the victor.
From this overlordship of the bachelors there had gradually risen a system of fagging, such as is or was practised in the great English public schools--enforced services exacted from the younger lads--which at the time Myles came to Devlen had, in the five or six years it had been in practice, grown to be an absolute though unwritten law of the body--a law supported by all the prestige of long-continued usage.
The unwritten constitution is the creation or constitution of the sovereign, and the sovereign providentially constituted constitutes in turn the government, which is not sovereign, but is clothed with just so much and just so little authority as the sovereign wills or ordains.
Only, there were traditions among Enforcers, unwritten Laws, codes of behavior.
Under the guidance of the founders, the monumental weight of social pressure and the enormous power of the law had been brought to bear in order to enforce the unwritten as well as the written rules that governed the social order.
I love such a mornin' and such a life, for itself and for the unwritten prophecis in it.