write (pa. t. “writ,” rarely “wrote”; pa. pple. “writ, written,” rarely “wrote”)
1.
to sign or subscribe one's name
(“for”)
2H6 IV. i. 63
“This hand of mine hath
writ in thy behalf,”
Sonn. cxxxiv. 7
“He learn'd . . . to
write for me, Under that bond.”
2.
to set oneself down
as, call oneself
All'sW. II. iii. 207
“ man”
(see MAN sb.), 2H4 I. ii.
29,
Lr. V. iii. 36
“ happy when thou
hast done”
; (hence) to lay claim to
All'sW. II. iii. 67
“My mouth no more were
broken than these boys' And writ as
little beard.”
3.
“
against,” denounce Ado IV. i. 56, Cym. II. v. 32.
