writ

Universal Words noun, verb noun ~ (for sth) (against sb) a legal document from a court of law telling sb to do or not to do sth: The company has been served with a writ for breach of contract. * We fully intend to issue a writ against the newspaper. seealsoHOLYWRIT verb (old use) past participle of WRITE IDIOMS writ large (literary) 1 easy to see or understand: Mistrust was writ large on her face. 2 (used after a noun) being a larger or more obvious example of the thing mentioned: The party's new philosophies are little more than their old beliefs writ large.