All 5 Uses of
writ
in
King Lear
- I dare pawn down my life for him that he hath writ this to feel my affection to your honour, and to no other pretence of danger.†
Scene 1.2 *
- What he hath utter'd I have writ my sister: If she sustain him and his hundred knights, When I have show'd th' unfitness,— [Re-enter Oswald.]†
Scene 1.4
- What, have you writ that letter to my sister?†
Scene 1.4
- Thus out of season, threading dark-ey'd night: Occasions, noble Gloster, of some poise, Wherein we must have use of your advice:— Our father he hath writ, so hath our sister, Of differences, which I best thought it fit To answer from our home; the several messengers From hence attend despatch.†
Scene 2.1
- Quickly send,— Be brief in it,—to the castle; for my writ Is on the life of Lear and on Cordelia:— Nay, send in time.†
Scene 5.2
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