All 3 Uses of
writ
in
Measure for Measure
- But it chances The stealth of our most mutual entertainment, With character too gross, is writ on Juliet.†
Scene 1.3 *
- This is a thing that Angelo knows not: for he this very day receives letters of strange tenour: perchance of the duke's death; perchance entering into some monastery; but, by chance, nothing of what is writ.†
Scene 4.2
- Every letter he hath writ hath disvouched other.†
Scene 4.4
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