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Definition of 'writ'Noun
( en-noun)
(legal) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
authority, power to enforce compliance
* '>citation
- We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.
(obsolete) that which is written; writing
* Spenser
- Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing read, thus as the paper spake.
* Knolles
- Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ
Derived terms
* drop the writ
* Holy Writ
* writ of habeas corpus
References
* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
( Webster)
Verb
( head)
(dated|nonstandard)
- (Dryden)
* (Omar Khayyam) (in translation)
- The moving finger writes, and having writ , not all your piety or wit can lure it back to cancel half a line
Usage notes
* The form writ'' survives in standard dialects only in the phrase ''writ large , though it remains common in some dialects (e.g. Scouse).
Related terms
* writ large
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