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   Write , v. t. [imp. Wrote ; p. p. Written ; Archaic imp. & p. p. Writ ; p. pr. & vb. n. Writing.] [OE. writen, AS. wrītan; originally, to scratch, to score; akin to OS. wrītan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rīzan, Icel. rīta to write, Goth. writs a stroke, dash, letter. Cf. Race tribe, lineage.]
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   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.
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   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.
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   Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to one she loves.
   Shak.
   
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   I chose to write the thing I durst not speak
   To her I loved.
   Prior.
   
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   Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
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   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.
   
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   To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth written on the heart.
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   To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
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   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.
   
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   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.
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   Write, v. i.
   To form characters, letters, or figures, as representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by written signs.
   Chaucer.
   
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   So it stead you, I will write,
   Please you command.
   Shak.
   
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   To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the public offices.
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   To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
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   They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors.
   Felton.
   
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   To compose or send letters.
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   He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom.
   1 Esdras iv. 49.
   
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