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writ

Writ means legal or holy writings, generally to order people to do certain actions. (noun)

An example of a writ is a new town law.

Writ is to write in the past tense. (verb)

An example of to have writ is to have created a poem the other day.

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See writ in Webster's New World College Dictionary

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