writ

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
writ1

▶noun

• 1 a form of written command in the name of a court or other legal authority to do or abstain from doing a specified act.

  ■ (one's writ) one's power to enforce compliance or submission.

• 2 archaic a piece or body of writing.

– origin OE, from the Gmc base of write.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
writ2

▶verb archaic past participle of write.

– phrases
writ large in an obvious or exaggerated form.