All 7 Uses of
writ
in
Much Ado About Nothing
- 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
- 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
- Writ in my cousin's hand,
Scene 5.4 *writ = written
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