penned (root: pen)

• POS: Verb (usu participle)

CIDE DICTIONARY

penned, a. 

•  Winged; having plumes.  [1913 Webster]
•  Written with a pen; composed.  Shak.  [1913 Webster]
•  Enclosed in a pen; -- of animals.  [PJC]

THESAURUS

penned

autograph, autographic, barred, beleaguered, beset, besieged, blockaded, bound, cabined, caged, calligraphic, chirographic, cloistered, closed-in, confined, cooped, cordoned, cordoned off, corralled, cramped, cribbed, cursive, enclosed, engrossed, fenced, flowing, graphic, graphoanalytic, graphologic, graphometric, hedged, hemmed, holograph, holographic, immured, imprisoned, in longhand, in shorthand, in writing, incarcerated, inscribed, italic, italicized, jailed, leaguered, longhand, manuscript, mewed, on paper, paled, penciled, pent-up, printed, quarantined, railed, restrained, running, scriptorial, scriptural, shorthand, shut-in, stylographic, walled, walled-in, written