(law) A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. / Authority, power to enforce compliance. / (archaic) That which is written; writing.

(archaic) past tense of write / (archaic) past participle of write

(archaic) Inclined to much writing.

plural of writ

Obsolete form of writing.

plural of writting

The Bible. / The sacred writings of the Christian religion. / The sacred writings of any religion. / Unquestionable truth.

On a large scale; magnified. / Readily discerned, unmistakably indicated; clear, obvious.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see writ, small, smaller, smallest. / (figuratively) Miniaturized; on a small scale.

(law) A writ issued in certain actions at law, where the defendant has suffered judgment to pass against him by default, in order to ascertain and assess the plaintiff's damages, where they cannot readily be ascertained by mere calculation.