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Definition of: writ
(rit) noun
1. Law A written order, under seal, issued by a court, and commanding the person to whom it is addressed to do or not to do some act.
2. That which is written: now chiefly in the phrase Holy Writ, meaning the Bible. [OE, a writing <wrītan write]
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