writ
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writ¹
- /ɹɪt/
Rhymes with -ɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English writ, from Old English writ and ġewrit (“writing”), from Proto-Germanic *writą (“fissure, writing”), from Proto-Indo-European *wrey-, *wrī- (“to scratch, carve, ingrave”). Cognate with Scots writ (“writ, writing, handwriting”), Icelandic rit (“writing, writ, literary work, publication”).
noun writs
- A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
- A document ordering that an election be conducted.
- An order issued by the House of Lords summoning peers to the Chamber.
- Authority, power to enforce compliance. We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.
- That which is written; writing. Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake.
Similar: claim form
writ²
- /ɹɪt/
Rhymes with -ɪt
Where it comes from
From Middle English writ, write, from Old English write.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: judicial writ, mandamus, subpoena, appeal, citation, injunction, mandate, warrant, petition, property, pleading, ordinance, order-in-council, decree, authority, assignment
noun
Similar: claim form
Translations
Every language
noun a written order
| Español | decreto judicial, recurso, auto, requerimiento judicial, orden escrito, orden escripta |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 영장 yeongjang |
| 日本語 | 令状 reijō |
| 中文 | 令狀 /令状 lìngzhuàng |
| हिन्दी | विधि vidhi |
| Português | mandado |
| Français | ordonnance |
| Deutsch | Erlaß, Gerichtsurkunde, Verfügung, Zwangsbefehl |
| Italiano | ordinanza, intimazione, mandato, ingiunzione |
| Русский | прика́з prikáz, распоряже́ние суда́ rasporjažénije sudá |
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