Definition of writ

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Writ (n.) 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..

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Attachment :: Attachment (n.) The writ or percept commanding such seizure or taking.
Scholiaze :: Scholiaze (v. i.) To write scholia.
Miscellanarian :: Miscellanarian (n.) A writer of miscellanies.
Postil :: Postil (v. i.) To write postils, or marginal notes; to comment; to postillate..
Epistolographic :: Epistolographic (a.) Pertaining to the writing of letters; used in writing letters; epistolary.
Direction :: Direction (n.) The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the direction of a letter..
Dramatist :: Dramatist (n.) The author of a dramatic composition; a writer of plays.
Hagiographer :: Hagiographer (n.) One of the writers of the hagiographa; a writer of lives of the saints.
Illiteracy :: Illiteracy (n.) The state of being illiterate, or uneducated; want of learning, or knowledge; ignorance; specifically, inability to read and write; as, the illiteracy shown by the last census..
History :: History (n.) A systematic, written account of events, particularly of those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from personal experience, obse
Sublime :: Sublime (n.) A grand or lofty style in speaking or writing; a style that expresses lofty conceptions.
Grammar :: Grammar (n.) The science which treats of the principles of language; the study of forms of speech, and their relations to one another; the art concerned with the right use aud application of the rules of a language, in speaking or writing..
Intelligible :: Intelligible () Capable of being understood or comprehended; as, an intelligible account or description; intelligible pronunciation, writing, etc..
Authentic :: Authentic (n.) Of approved authority; true; trustworthy; credible; as, an authentic writer; an authentic portrait; authentic information..
Ionic :: Ionic (a.) Pertaining to the Ionic order of architecture, one of the three orders invented by the Greeks, and one of the five recognized by the Italian writers of the sixteenth century. Its distinguishing feature is a capital with spiral volutes. See Illust. of Capital..
Elohist :: Elohist (n.) The writer, or one of the writers, of the passages of the Old Testament, notably those of Elohim instead of Jehovah, as the name of the Supreme Being; -- distinguished from Jehovist..
Colloquialism :: Colloquialism (n.) A colloquial expression, not employed in formal discourse or writing..
Libel :: Libel (n.) A brief writing of any kind, esp. a declaration, bill, certificate, request, supplication, etc..
Indorsement :: Indorsement (n.) The act of writing on the back of a note, bill, or other written instrument..
Papeterie :: Papeterie (n.) A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.
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