Writ

Quick meaning: Writ is a noun meaning (countable, law) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.

Meaning

(countable, law) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.

More Meanings

1. (countable, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK) A document ordering that an election be conducted.
2. (countable, UK) An order issued by the House of Lords summoning peers to the Chamber.
3. (uncountable) Authority, power to enforce compliance.
4. simple past of write
5. past participle of write up
6. (archaic) That which is written; writing.

Example Sentences

Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ

Let Virtuoſo’s in five years be Writ; / Yet not one Thought accuſe thy toil of Wit.

Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake.

I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand, And whiter then the paper it writ on, Is the faire hand that writ.

Word Forms

• writs

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include mandamus, subpoena, appeal, citation, injunction, mandate.

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