All 6 Uses of
writ
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- A song writ by him has given offense in high places— and a hundred men—I am of them—are posted to-night... CHRISTIAN: A hundred men!†
Act 1 *
- I have writ it and rewrit it in my own mind so oft that it lies there ready for pen and ink; and if I lay but my soul by my letter-sheet, 'tis naught to do but to copy from it.†
Act 2
- We have our pockets full, We poets, of love-letters, writ to Chloes, Daphnes—creations of our noddle-heads.†
Act 2
- If kisses could be writ with ink, If kisses fast could flee!'†
Act 3
- ... CYRANO: I had suspicion it would be to-day, (He draws a letter out of his doublet): And had already writ... CHRISTIAN: Show!†
Act 4
- wise Penelope Would ne'er have stayed to broider on her hearthstone, If her Ulysses could have writ such letters!†
Act 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