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wrote |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Write \Write\, v. t. [imp. {Wrote}; p. p. {Written}; Archaic imp. & p. p. {Writ}; p. pr & vb n. {Writing}.] [OE. writen, AS wr[=i]tan; originally, to scratch, to score; akin to OS wr[=i]tan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen OHG. r[=i]zan, Icel. r[=i]ta to write, Goth. writs a stroke, dash, letter. Cf {Race} tribe, lineage.] 1. To set down as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material by a suitable instrument; as to write the characters called letters; to write figures. 2. To set down for reading; to express in legible or intelligible characters; to inscribe; as to write a deed; to write a bill of divorcement; hence specifically, to set down in an epistle; to communicate by letter. Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves. --Shak. I chose to write the thing I durst not speak To her I loved. --Prior. 3. Hence to compose or produce, as an author. I purpose to write the history of England from the accession of King James the Second down to a time within the memory of men still living. --Macaulay. 4. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as truth written on the heart. 5. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively. He who writes himself by his own inscription is like an ill painter, who by writing on a shapeless picture which he hath drawn, is fain to tell passengers what shape it is which else no man could imagine. --Milton. {To write to}, to communicate by a written document to {Written laws}, laws deriving their force from express legislative enactment, as contradistinguished from unwritten, or common, law. See the Note under {Law}, and {Common law}, under {Common}, a. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wrote \Wrote\, v. i. [OE. wroten. See 1st {Root}.] To root with the snout. See 1st {Root}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wrote \Wrote\, imp. & archaic p. p. of {Write}.
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