writ

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something. countable
  2. A document ordering that an election be conducted. Australia,Canada,New-Zealand,UK,countable
  3. An order issued by the House of Lords summoning peers to the Chamber. UK,countable
  4. Authority, power to enforce compliance. uncountable
    — 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.
  5. That which is written; writing. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake.
动词 v.
  1. simple past of write dated,dialectal,form-of,past
    — I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand, And whiter then the paper it writ on, Is the faire hand that writ.
  2. past participle of write up dated,dialectal,form-of,participle,past
    — I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand, And whiter then the paper it writ on, Is the faire hand that writ.

词形变化

writs plural

词汇关系

近义词
claim form
衍生词
drop the writ handwrit Holy Writ prerogative writ proverbs should be writ in pairs writ of assistance writ of attachment writ of execution writ of habeas corpus writ of inquiry writ of mandamus writ of privilege writ of prohibition writ of right writ of summons writ-room underwrit writ large writ small

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle English writ, write, from Old English write.
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