- Law.
- a formal order under seal, issued in the name of a sovereign, government, court, or other competent authority, enjoining the officer or other person to whom it is issued or addressed to do or refrain from some specified act.
- (in early English law) any formal document in letter form, under seal, and in the sovereign's name.
- something written; a writing: sacred writ.
- a simple past tense and past participle of write.
- (formerly) a document under seal, issued in the name of the Crown or a court, commanding the person to whom it is addressed to do or refrain from doing some specified act
- a piece or body of writing
- archaic, or dialect a past tense and past participle of write
- plain to see; very obvious
