8 uses
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Definition
law: an order issued by a court or judicial officer
or more rarely:
archaic term for written or wrote
or more rarely:
archaic term for written or wrote
- Writ, I ween, 'twas not my wish In lean unlovely English.Episode 9 — Scylla And Charybdis (8% in)
- 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.Episode 3 — Proteus (15% in)
- —Then our friend's writ is not worth the paper it's printed on, Ben Dollard said.Episode 10 — Wandering Rocks (73% in)
- —You can tell Barabbas from me, Ben Dollard said, that he can put that writ where Jacko put the nuts.Episode 10 — Wandering Rocks (73% in)
- Playing cards, hobnobbing with flash toffs with a swank glass in their eye, adrinking fizz and he half smothered in writs and garnishee orders.Episode 12 — Cyclops (54% in)
- 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.Episode 14 — Oxen Of The Sun (18% in)
- 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.Episode 14 — Oxen Of The Sun (21% in)
- —O that, Stephen expostulated, has been proved conclusively by several of the bestknown passages in Holy Writ, apart from circumstantial evidence.Episode 16 — Eumaeus (40% in)
There are no more uses of "writ" in Ulysses by James Joyce.
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