Found 2 items, similar to unwritten.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: unwritten
unwritten
adj 1: 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]
2: using speech rather than writing;
“an oral tradition”;
“an
oral agreement” [syn:
oral]
3: said or done without having been planned or written in
advance;
“he made a few ad-lib remarks” [syn:
ad-lib,
spontaneous]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Unwritten
Unwritten
\Un*writ"ten\, a.
1. Not written; not reduced to writing; oral; as, unwritten
agreements.
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2. Containing no writing; blank; as, unwritten paper.
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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.
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