writ

1. 1

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

2. 2

   A document ordering that an election be conducted.AustraliaCanadaNew-Zealand

3. 3

   An order issued by the House of Lords summoning peers to the Chamber.UKcountable

4. 4

   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.
   • Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs.
5. 5

   That which is written; writing.archaiccountableuncountable

   • Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake.
   • Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ

syn. claim form

1. 1

   simple past of writedateddialectalform-of

   • 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. 2

   past participle of write updateddialectalform-of

   • I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand, And whiter then the paper it writ on, Is the faire hand that writ.
   • Let Virtuoſo’s in five years be Writ; / Yet not one Thought accuſe thy toil of Wit.