Dictionary Entry

writ

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/ɹɪt/Used In Literature ↓

A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.

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Common Phrases

. writlarge writwrit holy

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Poetry examples for “writ”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Fate doom'd the fall of every female wit;
But doom'd it then, when first Ardelia writ.
Of all examples by the world confess'd,

And with a borrow'd play, out-did poor Crowne.
There he stopp'd short, nor since has writ a tittle,
But has the wit to make the most of little: 10

Why on all authors, then, should critics fall?
Since some have writ, and shown no wit at all.
Condemn a play of theirs, and they evade it;

He scorn'd to borrow from the wits of yore,
But ever writ, as none e'er writ before. 10
You modern wits, should each man bring his claim,

To council, plied him with his richest wines,
And show’d the late-writ letters of the king.

Not knowing beyond this blind world's girth
What things are writ in heaven's full scroll.

The green land's name that a charm encloses,
It never was writ in the traveller's chart,
And sweet on its trees as the fruit that grows is,

Read in bloodred lines of loss and blame,
Writ where cloud and darkness round it thicken,
Time, thy name.

Twas writ already in their heart ;

5 " Remarks upon a late disingenuous dis-
course writ by one T. D. under the
pretence De Causa Dei and of answering