All 3 Uses of
writ
in
Measure for Measure
- But it chances The stealth of our most mutual entertainment, With character too gross, is writ on Juliet.†
Scene 1.3 *
- This is a thing that Angelo knows not: for he this very day receives letters of strange tenour: perchance of the duke's death; perchance entering into some monastery; but, by chance, nothing of what is writ.†
Scene 4.2
- Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.†
Scene 4.4
Definition:
-
(writ) law: an order issued by a court or judicial officer
or more rarely:
archaic term for written or wrote