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Alternative form of art for art's sake [(art, slogan) Art with no function; whose only purpose is beauty.]
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Obsolete spelling of author [The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.]
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Obsolete form of author. [The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.]
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A creative artist, especially a film director, seen as having a specific, recognisable artistic vision, and who is seen as the single or preeminent ‘author’ of his works.
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Of, or related to an auteur.
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The role or status of auteur.
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The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.
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The status or period of being an author.
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The condition of being an author.
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A young or insignificant author.
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The source; origin; origination
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Obsolete spelling of author [The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.]
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Obsolete form of author. [The originator or creator of a work, especially of a literary composition.]
adj
Of or pertaining to bibliography.
n
The quantitative analysis of text, including citation analysis
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A genre of mystery novels which have books as the central theme of the plot.
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A novel tracing the spiritual, moral, psychological, or social development and growth of the main character, usually from childhood to maturity.
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A devoted admirer and recorder of a person's words and deeds.
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The writing style of James Boswell (1740–1795), Scottish lawyer and writer, best known for his biography of Samuel Johnson.
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A work divided into a hundred parts.
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One who compiles a cento, or collection of writings by various authors.
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Alternative form of centoist [One who compiles a cento, or collection of writings by various authors.]
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Of or pertaining to citation
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The author of such a work.
adj
Of or relating to a columnist.
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Someone who creates constructed languages (conlangs).
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Alternative form of copanellist [A person who appears on a panel with another.]
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The art of writing texts such as novels, short stories and poems which fall outside the bounds of professional, journalistic, academic and technical discourse.
adj
Resembling or characteristic of a dictionary.
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Alternative form of epistolary [Of or relating to letters, or the writing of letters.]
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Of or relating to letters, or the writing of letters.
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Alternative form of epistler [A writer of an epistle.]
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Relating to letters or epistles; in the form or style of letters; epistolary.
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The writing of an epistle.
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The art or practice of writing epistles.
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Of or pertaining to an escritoire.
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One who carries out exegesis, the critical explanation or interpretation of a text.
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Pertaining to the writing of idiotorials.
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(bibliography) Unpublished literary works.
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(of writing) In a verbally inventive style similar to that of James Joyce.
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Alternative form of Lettrist [A supporter of Lettrism.]
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Alternative letter-case form of literae humaniores [An undergraduate course of study focused on classics.]
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Knowledgeable in literature, writing; literary; well-read.
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Alternative spelling of litterateur [A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.]
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Alternative spelling of litterateuse
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To engage in literary pursuits; to read and write literature.
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Obsolete spelling of literature [The body of all written works.]
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The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
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(chiefly in the plural) A learned person; one acquainted with literature.
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A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.
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Alternative spelling of litterateur [A person engaged in various literary works: literary critic, essayist, writer.]
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The literature written by H. P. Lovecraft.
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(dated) A literary man; a scholar or author.
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a handbook or published collection of patristic literature.
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(historical) A group of 16th-century French poets who sought to enrich the French language.
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The classical historian and essayist Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (46-120 C.E.). Often used as a byword for a biographer, to suggest that the writer is especially skilled or has other attributes associated with Plutarch.
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(informal) popular literature
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(historical, law) A legal scholar of the late Middle Ages, in the period after the glossators; a commentator.
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To debate by means of quodlibets
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(historical) The intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and the Americas, exchanging ideas by circulating handwritten letters.
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(authorship, of a fictional character) Well-written and well-characterized; complex and reminiscent of a real person.
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(rare) Inclined to write a great deal.
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One of the sections of a cathisma or portion of the psalter.
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(historical, in medieval universities) The lower division of the liberal arts; grammar, logic and rhetoric.
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Alternative spelling of urtext [A primitive, seminal, or prototypical example of an artistic genre or the basis of an ideological movement.]
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A man who is a wordsmith.
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Characteristic of a writer; writerly.
adj
Characteristic of a writer; using well-chosen words or well-crafted sentences.
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