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noun
A smaller piece, written during the process of writing a larger piece, which is supplementary or incidental to that larger piece; something written on the way to writing something else; a subsidiary composition or publication.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: formal
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Latin: obiter scrīptum (“[a thing] written on the way”), from obiter (“on the way, incidentally”) + scrīptum (“text, anything written, writing”). Formed on the pattern of the earlier obiter dictum, with which it is often paired (especially in the plural).
