écrit, -e, part., writ, written, fated. Cela était — au ciel; that was written above. Il est — que je ne gagnerai jamais; I am fated never to win. C’était —; it was bound to happen.
écriteau, n.m., bill (poster); board; signboard.
écritoire, n.f., ink-horn; inkstand. — portative; pocket inkstand.
écriture, n.f., writing, hand, handwriting; scripture. pl., accounts, papers, documents, lawyer’s bills. — coulée; secretary-hand, running-hand. Mauvaise —; scrawl. L’Ecriture sainte; the Holy Scriptures, the Bible. Commis aux —s; copying clerk.
écriturer, v.n., to do copying work.
écriturier, ère, n.m.f., copying-clerk, copyist.
*écrivailler, v.a., to scribble.
*écrivaillerie, n.f., scribbling.
*écrivailleur, n.m. V. écrivassier.
*écrivain, n.m., writer, author; writing-master; captain’s clerk. — public; public scrivener, petition writer.