Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗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.
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”).
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