Definitions for writ

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writ writ

Spelling: [rit]

IPA: /rɪt/

Writ is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in writ (irtw).

Definitions for writ

noun

1. Law. a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act. (in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
2. something written; a writing:

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of write.

Verb phrases

1. write down, to set down in writing; record; note. to direct one's writing to a less intelligent reader or audience:
2. write in, to vote for (a candidate not listed on the ballot) by writing his or her name on the ballot. to include in or add to a text by writing: to request something by mail:
3. write off, to cancel an entry in an account, as an unpaid and uncollectable debt. to regard as worthless, lost, obsolete, etc.; decide to forget: to amortize:
4. write out, to put into writing. to write in full form; state completely. to exhaust the capacity or resources of by excessive writing:
5. write up, to put into writing, especially in full detail: to present to public notice in a written description or account. Accounting. to make an excessive valuation of (an asset).

verb (used with object)

1. to trace or form (characters, letters, words, etc.) on the surface of some material, as with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means; inscribe:
2. to express or communicate in writing; give a written account of.
3. to fill in the blank spaces of (a printed form) with writing:
4. to execute or produce by setting down words, figures, etc.:
5. to compose and produce in words or characters duly set down:
6. to produce as author or composer:
7. to trace significant characters on, or mark or cover with writing.
8. to cause to be apparent or unmistakable:
9. Computers. to transfer (information, data, programs, etc.) from storage to secondary storage or an output medium.
10. Stock Exchange. to sell (options).
11. to underwrite.

verb (used without object)

1. to trace or form characters, words, etc., with a pen, pencil, or other instrument or means, or as a pen or the like does:
2. to write as a profession or occupation: Daily Inquirer.
3. to express ideas in writing.
4. to write a letter or letters, or communicate by letter:
5. to compose or work as a writer or author.
6. Computers. to write into a secondary storage device or output medium.

Origin of writ

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Norse rit writing, Gothic writs letter. See write

Examples for writ

A great question was writ large upon his intelligent countenance.

It is the isolation of rural America writ in bricks and mortar.

writ in its history are all the ills and passions of the past century.

Baghdadi is unlikely to comply, and Zawahiri has long been unable to enforce his writ on the Iraqi branch of al Qaeda.

Pull it out, please, me hand's that dirty'—and out come the writ!

His handwriting does not run quite as far as the queen's writ in this country yet.

And we saw that same desire to be free in Tunisia, where the will of the people proved more powerful than the writ of a dictator.

I see why, at this late day, she had started up and writ me a letter.

McCain said additional economic sanctions against Russia writ large were also called for.

I'm Mr Chatterton, sir; and now, out with your writ—whose suit?