All 8 Uses of
writ
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce
- Playing cards, hobnobbing with flash toffs with a swank glass in their eye, adrinking fizz and he half smothered in writs and garnishee orders.†
Chpt 12 *writs = order issued by a court or judicial officer
- —O that, Stephen expostulated, has been proved conclusively by several of the bestknown passages in Holy Writ, apart from circumstantial evidence.†
Chpt 16 *holy writ = an unquestionable truth; or a sacred writing -- especially the Bible
- He lays aside the lapboard whereon he drafts his bills of costs for the eyes of master Goff and master Shapland Tandy, filing consents and common searches and a writ of Duces Tecum.†
Chpt 3
- Writ, I ween, 'twas not my wish In lean unlovely English.†
Chpt 9
- —Then our friend's writ is not worth the paper it's printed on, Ben Dollard said.†
Chpt 10
- —You can tell Barabbas from me, Ben Dollard said, that he can put that writ where Jacko put the nuts.†
Chpt 10 *
- And he showed them glistering coins of the tribute and goldsmith notes the worth of two pound nineteen shilling that he had, he said, for a song which he writ.†
Chpt 14
- He gave them then a much admirable hymen minim by those delicate poets Master John Fletcher and Master Francis Beaumont that is in their Maid's Tragedy that was writ for a like twining of lovers: To bed, to bed was the burden of it to be played with accompanable concent upon the virginals.†
Chpt 14
Definitions:
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(1)
(writ as in: writ from the court) an order issued by a court or judicial officer
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(2)
(writ as in: writ large) written large an idiom meaning made obvious (as though written in large print)
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(3)
(writ as in: holy writ) an unquestionable truth; or a sacred writing -- especially the Bible
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(4)
(writ as in: writ in her own hand) archaic way of saying written or wrote