Sentence examples for to writ from inspiring English sources
noun
A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
After Komen's reversal this morning, Lepore sent me another quote from Franklin's sister Jane: "I do not Pretend to writ a bout Politics tho I love to hear them".
Those who stick to writ and offer humble thanks to the acquisitive are contradictorily assured by mansion-dwellers that money does not buy happiness and that electric blankets can replace central heating.
On the other hand, the antiquary John Aubrey wrote in some notes about Shakespeare: "He was not a company keeper; lived in Shoreditch; wouldn't be debauched, and, if invited to, writ he was in pain".
To watch Christie and her friends at the pool is to see the transition from childhood to adolescence writ large.
Wiped clean it was a tabula rasa or "blank slate", a phrase that has come to signify an open mind ready to be writ on by experience.
In this case, it refers to units writ large.
On the contrary, they evoke that brief, swirling period in young adulthood in which everything in life seems to be writ large.
There are unions that have disaster etched into them from day one and others that seem to be writ in stone.
That's what the American Dream will feel like when it becomes globalized and everyone has access to it, writ large [because everyone has come online].
The second of forty-one casesnal cases heard by the Marshall Court, More ensured that the Court's criminal jurisprudence would be limited to writs of error from the state (and later, territorial) courts, original habeas petitions and writs of error from habeas petitions in the circuit courts, and certificates of division and mandamus from the circuit courts.
Trying to stop "radicalization" writ large is like "trying to stop the tide.
