Definition of writ

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Writ (n.) That which is written; writing; scripture; -- applied especially to the Scriptures, or the books of the Old and New testaments; as, sacred writ..

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Digress :: Digress (v. i.) To step or turn aside; to deviate; to swerve; especially, to turn aside from the main subject of attention, or course of argument, in writing or speaking..
Magazining :: Magazining (n.) The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine..
Unwrite :: Unwrite (v. t.) To cancel, as what is written; to erase..
Polygraph :: Polygraph (n.) An instrument for multiplying copies of a writing; a manifold writer; a copying machine.
Epistolean :: Epistolean (n.) One who writes epistles; a correspondent.
Cenozoic :: Cenozoic (a.) Belonging to the most recent division of geological time, including the tertiary, or Age of mammals, and the Quaternary, or Age of man. [Written also caenozoic, cainozoic, kainozoic.] See Geology..
Acrid :: Acrid (a.) Caustic; bitter; bitterly irritating; as, acrid temper, mind, writing..
Attaint :: Attaint (v.) A writ which lies after judgment, to inquire whether a jury has given a false verdict in any court of record; also, the convicting of the jury so tried..
Scrutoire :: Scrutoire (n.) A escritoire; a writing desk.
Dynamics :: Dynamics (n.) That branch of mechanics which treats of the motion of bodies (kinematics) and the action of forces in producing or changing their motion (kinetics). Dynamics is held by some recent writers to include statics and not kinematics.
Lloyd''s :: Lloyd's (n.) A part of the Royal Exchange, in London, appropriated to the use of underwriters and insurance brokers; -- called also Lloyd's Rooms..
Dizzard :: Dizzard (n.) A blockhead. [Obs.] [Written also dizard, and disard.].
Latinize :: Latinize (v. t.) To give Latin terminations or forms to, as to foreign words, in writing Latin..
Grave :: Grave (v. i.) To write or delineate on hard substances, by means of incised lines; to practice engraving..
Rubric :: Rubric (n.) The directions and rules for the conduct of service, formerly written or printed in red; hence, also, an ecclesiastical or episcopal injunction; -- usually in the plural..
Bullist :: Bullist (n.) A writer or drawer up of papal bulls.
Bill :: Bill (n.) A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document..
Allegorist :: Allegorist (n.) One who allegorizes; a writer of allegory.
Octodecimo :: Octodecimo (n.) A book composed of sheets each of which is folded into eighteen leaves; hence; indicating more or less definitely a size of book, whose sheets are so folded; -- usually written 18mo or 18¡, and called eighteenmo..
Quotable :: Quotable (a.) Capable or worthy of being quoted; as, a quotable writer; a quotable sentence..
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