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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
- I am sent to find those persons whose names are here writ,1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — A Street (42% in)
writ = written
- ...and can never find what names the writing person hath here writ.1.2 — Act 1 Scene 2 — A Street (43% in)
- 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;1.3 — Act 1 Scene 3 — Room in Capulet's House (77% in) - So many guests invite as here are writ.4.2 — Act 4 Scene 2 — Hall in Capulet's House (6% in)
- Or, if his mind be writ, give me his letter.5.2 — Act 5 Scene 2 — Friar Lawrence's Cell (19% in)
- —O, give me thy hand, One writ with me in sour misfortune's book!5.3 — Act 5 Scene 3 — A churchyard; in it a Monument.... (27% in)
- 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.5.3 — Act 5 Scene 3 — A churchyard; in it a Monument.... (81% in)
writ = written
writ = written
writ = written
writ = written
writ = written
writ = wrote
There are no more uses of "writ" in Romeo and Juliet.
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