All 6 Uses of
writ
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- A song writ by him has given offense in high places— and a hundred men—I am of them—are posted to-night….†
Act 1 *
- I have writ it and rewrit it in my own mind so oft that it lies there ready for pen and ink; and if I lay but my soul by my letter-sheet, 'tis naught to do but to copy from it.†
Act 2
- We have our pockets full, We poets, of love-letters, writ to Chloes, Daphnes—creations of our noddle-heads.†
Act 2
- If kisses could be writ with ink, If kisses fast could flee!'†
Act 3
- … CYRANO: I had suspicion it would be to-day, (He draws a letter out of his doublet): And had already writ….†
Act 4
- Oh! wise Penelope Would ne'er have stayed to broider on her hearthstone, If her Ulysses could have writ such letters!†
Act 4
Definition:
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(writ) law: an order issued by a court or judicial officer
or more rarely:
archaic term for written or wrote