writing telegraph

A telegraphic instrument which sends autographic me ages. written, *writte, *wryt-en, pa. par. & adj. [WRITE.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adj .: Reduced to writing: committed_to paper, ., with pen and ink or other material. Opposed to oral or spoken . "Language is a connection of audible signs, the most apt in nature for communication of our thoughts, writ ten language is a description of the said audible signs by signs visible." -Holder : On Language. IMG:content-1062.png:[blocks in formation] "It is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only snalt thou serve." - Matt . iv. 10: (2) Written law : Law as contained in a statute or statutes as distinguished from unwritten law. fate, fat, färe, amidst, what, fåll, a substantive in the A. S. Chronicle, an. 1124.] A. As adjective: *1. Twisted, crooked; as, a wrong nose. (Wyc liffe : Levit . xxi. 19.) 2. Not physically right; not fit or suitable; not appropriate for use; not adapted to the end or purpose; not according to rule, requirement, wish, design or the like; not that which is intended or desired to be. "I have directed you to wrong places."- Shakesp .: Merry Wives, iii. 1. 3. Not morally right; not according to the divine or moral law; deviating from rectitude; not equitable, fair, or just; unjust. "For modes of faith let gracele bigots fight: He can't be wrong whose life is in the right." Pope : E ay on Man , iii. 306. 4. Not in accordance with the facts or truth; false, mistaken, inaccurate, incorrect. "By false intelligence, or wrong surmise." Shakesp.: Richard III., ii. 1. 5. Holding erroneous notions or views in matters of doctrine, opinion, or fact; mistaken; in error; as, I thought so, but I was wrong . 6. Unjust, illegitimate. "If his cause be wrong ."-Shakesp.: Henry V., iv. 1. B. As adv.: In a wrong manner; wrongly, unjustly, ami . "The right divine of kings to govern wrong." Pope: Dunciad, iv. 188. C. As substantive: 1. That which is wrong or not right; a state, condition, or instance in which there is something which is not right. (Used without an article.) "It is the greatest good to the greatest number is the measure of right or wrong ."-Bentham. IMG:content-1063.png:[blocks in formation] "Be contented, you wrong yourself too much." Shakesp.: Merry Wives , iii. 8. II. Naut.: To outsail (a ship) by becalming her sails. "They observed they wronged her so much, they would go round her if they pleased." -Johnson Chrysal, i. 52. *B. In trans.: To do wrong. "For whan that holy churche wrongeth, I not what other thyng shall right." Gower. C. 4. , ii. wrong'-er, s . [Eng. wrong , v.; -er.] One who wrongs; one who does wrong or injury to another in any way. "Hold, shepherd, hold; learn not to be a wronger Of your word; was not your promise laid?" Beaum. & Flet .: Faithful Shepherde , iv. wrong-fül, *wronge-full, wrong full, *wronge-fulle, a . [Eng, wrong ; -full .] Injurious, unjust, wrong; not founded on right or justice. "Another casuist, somewhat le austere, pronounced that a government, wrongful in its origin, might become a settled government after the lapse of a century."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xvii. wrong-fül-ly, adv . [Eng. wrongful ; -ly .] Ina wrongful manner; contrary to justice or fairne ; unjustly, unfairly; illegally. which-Macaulay. Hist. Eng., ch. xix. 2. A wrong, unfair, or unjust act; any violation of right or of divine or human law: an act of injustice; a breach of the law to the injury of another, whether by something done or something undone; an injustice, a tre pa . "The distinction of public wrongs from private, of crimes and misdemeanors from civil injuries, seems principally to consist in this: that private wrongs , or civil injuries, are an infringement or privation of the civil rights which belong to individuals, considered merely as individuals: public wrongs or crimes and misdemeanors are a breach and violation of the public rights and duties, due to the whole community, considered as a community, in its social aggregate capacity."Black stone: Commentaries, bk iv., ch. 1. 3. Any injury, mischief, hurt, damage, or pain. "For thy right myself will bear all wrong." Shakesp.: Sonnet 88. IMG:content-1064.png:[blocks in formation] "He was, rightfully or wrongfully , King in po e ion." wrong-fül-ne , s. [Eng. wrongful; -ne .] The quality or state of being wrongful; injustice. head .) *wrong'-head, s. & a . [English wrong , a.; and A. As subst.: A person of a misapprehending mind and an obstinate character; a pig-headed person. B. As adj.: Wrongheaded, obstinate, perverse. "Much do I suffer, much, to keep in peace This jealous, waspish, wrong head , rhyming race." Pope : Satires , vi. 148.