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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
- There's a sermon now, writ in high heaven, and the sun goes through it every year, and yet comes out of it all alive and hearty.Chapters 97-99 — The Lamp; Stowing Down & Clearing Up; Doubloon (76% in)
- So that to this hunter's wondrous skill, the proverbial evanescence of a thing writ in water, a wake, is to all desired purposes well nigh as reliable as the steadfast land.Chapters 133-135 — The Chase—First Day; The Chase—Second Day; The Chase—Third Day (35% in)
There are no more uses of "writ" in Moby Dick.
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