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Definition
law: an order issued by a court or judicial officeror more rarely:
archaic term for written or wrote
- Her attorney filed for a writ of habeas corpus.
writ = an order issued by a court or judicial officer
- She had a writ of habeas corpus, but the right was temporarily suspended in the troubled country.
- The story of Steve Jobs is the Silicon Valley creation story writ large.
- This night you shall behold him at our feast;
Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face,
And find delight writ there with beauty's pen;William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - Writ in my cousin's hand,William Shakespeare -- Much Ado About Nothing
- "I must admit, Lewis, that it is highly unlikely that the judge will issue a writ for the blacks," Baldwin said.Alexs Pate -- Amistad
- Why, she hath not writ to me?William Shakespeare -- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ,William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- I'll clap a writ on you!Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- —O, give me thy hand, One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- So many guests invite as here are writ.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- ...and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
- Then gave I her, so tutored by my art,
A sleeping potion; which so took effect
As I intended, for it wrought on her
The form of death: meantime I writ to Romeo
That he should hither come as this dire night,
To help to take her from her borrow'd grave,
Being the time the potion's force should cease.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - The law, based upon the Bible, and the Bible, writ by Almighty God, forbid the practice of witchcraft, and describe death as the penalty thereof.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- Erased and writ-ten over.Ted Dekker -- White: The Great Pursuit
- Together, his two books were called the Hive-Queen and the Hegemon, and they were holy writ.Orson Scott Card -- Ender's Game
- Look at that shirt—every last inch of it kivered over with secret African writ'n done with blood!Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies.Alexis de Toqueville -- Democracy In America, Volume 2
- ] CORV: And credit nothing the false spirit hath writ: It cannot be, but he's possest grave fathers.Ben Jonson -- Volpone
writ = an order issued by a court
writ = written
writ = written
writ = written
writ = an order issued by a court or judicial officer
writ = archaic term for written or wrote
writ = written
writ = an order issued by a court or judicial officer
writ = written
writ = written
writ = written
writ = written
writ = wrote