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Much Ado About Nothing
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This says she now when she is beginning to write to him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.
Scene 2.3 *

writ = written
Writ in my cousin's hand,
Scene 5.4 *
when she had writ it, and was reading it over, she found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet?†
Scene 2.3
she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence; railed at herself, that she should be so immodest to write to one that she knew would flout her: 'I measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I love him, I should.'†
Scene 2.3
Have you writ down, that they are none?†
Scene 4.2
O that I had been writ down an ass!†
Scene 4.2
I will be flesh and blood; For there was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods And made a push at chance and sufferance.†
Scene 5.1

Definitions:

(1) (writ as in: writ from the court)
an order issued by a court or judicial officer
(2) (writ as in: writ large)
written large an idiom meaning made obvious (as though written in large print)
(3) (writ as in: holy writ)
an unquestionable truth; or a sacred writing -- especially the Bible
(4) (writ as in: writ in her own hand)
archaic way of saying written or wrote
(5) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)