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Writ
Definitions
- 1 A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. countable
- 2 (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer wordnet
- 3 A document ordering that an election be conducted. Australia, Canada, New-Zealand, UK, countable
- 4 An order issued by the House of Lords summoning peers to the Chamber. UK, countable
- 5 Authority, power to enforce compliance. uncountable
"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."
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- 6 That which is written; writing. archaic, countable, uncountable
"Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake."
- 1 simple past of write dated, dialectal, form-of, past
"I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand, And whiter then the paper it writ on, Is the faire hand that writ."
- 2 past participle of write up dated, dialectal, form-of, participle, past
"I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand, And whiter then the paper it writ on, Is the faire hand that writ."
Etymology
From Middle English writ, from Old English writ and ġewrit (“writing”), from Proto-Germanic *writą (“fissure, writing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey-, *wrī- (“to scratch, carve, ingrave”). Cognate with Scots writ (“writ, writing, handwriting”), Icelandic rit (“writing, writ, literary work, publication”).
From Middle English writ, write, from Old English write.
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