How do you use the word "writ" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "writ": That was well writ. My book became the Holy writ for all those engineers.

Writ Meaning

/ɹɪt/

Definition, CEFR level C2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

nounA written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.

nounA document ordering that an election be conducted.

Sentence Examples

That was well writ.

My book became the Holy writ for all those engineers.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The judge issued a ____ to force the company to release the documents.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The court issued a ____ of habeas corpus, requiring the prisoner to be brought before a server judge today.

Word Origin & History

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”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"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." — 2009, Stephen Gale et al., The War on Terrorism: 21st-Century Perspectives, Transaction Publishers, →ISBN, page 30:

"Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs." — 1913, Elizabeth Kimball Kendall, A Wayfarer in China:

"Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake." — 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 25:

"Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ" — 1603, Richard Knolles, The Generall Historie of the Turkes, […], London: […] Adam Islip, →OCLC:

"I know the hand, in faith tis a faire hand, And whiter then the paper it writ on, Is the faire hand that writ." — c. 1596–1598 (date written), W[illiam] Shakespeare, The Excellent History of the Merchant of Venice. […] (First Quarto), [London]: […] J[ames] Roberts [for Thomas Heyes], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:

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