handwrite

[hand-rahyt]

verb (used with object), hand·wrote or (Archaic) hand·writ; hand·writ·ten or (Archaic) hand·writ; hand·writ·ing.

Origin of handwrite

First recorded in 1840–50; back formation from handwriting

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Rihanna Thanks Designers for Presents via Instagram: Forget the hand-written thank you note.
Lululemon Founder Resigns; Victoria Beckham's Wedding Tiara Fails to Sell
The Fashion Beast Team
December 10, 2013
I had a student send a hand-written letter every day she was on the waitlist.
How to Get in When You're Waitlisted
Kristina Dell
April 20, 2011

McCann left a hand-written will bequeathing all his possessions to Karpin.
The Risk Profession
Donald Edwin Westlake
Also, transcriptions of the hand-written letters have been added.
The Missing Link in Modern Spiritualism
A. Leah Underhill
This document was taken from hand-written letters in the eighteenth century, and also contains quotes from other authors.
Observations on Mount Vesuvius, Mount Etna, and Other Volcanos
William Hamilton
Page 36: "Bow not to books, nor saviors, nor aught" included a hand-written change that inserted "to" before "aught."
The Cross and Crown
T. D. Curtis
They eyed King and me with a butcher's-eye appraisal, nodded, and resumed their consultation of the hand-written roll.
Caves of Terror
Talbot Mundy

adj.

also handwritten, 1745, from hand (n.) + written. As a verb, hand-write is recorded from 1878, probably a back-formation.