1. (n.)writ a sealed document, issued in the name of a court, government, sovereign, etc., directing an officer or official to do or refrain from doing some specified act.
2. writ (in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
3. writ something written; a writing: sacred writ.
Etymology: (bef. 900; ME, OE, c. OHG riz stroke, ON rit writing, Go writs serif; akin to write)
Definition of 'WRIT'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)writ, judicial writ (law) a legal document issued by a court or judicial officer
Definition of 'WRIT'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)WRIT that which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ
2. (noun)WRIT an instrument in writing, under seal, in an epistolary form, issued from the proper authority, commanding the performance or nonperformance of some act by the person to whom it is directed; as, a writ of entry, of error, of execution, of injunction, of mandamus, of return, of summons, and the like
3. WRIT 3d pers. sing. pres. of Write, for writeth
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