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Writ has two uses. As a noun, especially in law, a writ is a formal written order from a court telling someone to do or not do something. As an old, mostly literary form of 'written', it shows up in phrases like 'as is writ' or 'the writing on the wall', but in modern everyday English we just say 'written' instead.
（法律）令狀、書面命令；(古語/文學) written 的舊式說法
組成Old past participle of 'write'.
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
writnoun詞源 1/ɹɪt/
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lawA written order, issued by a court, ordering someone to do (or stop doing) something.
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A document ordering that an election be conducted.
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An order issued by the House of Lords summoning peers to the Chamber.
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Authority, power to enforce compliance.
- We can't let them take advantage of the fact that there are so many areas of the world where no one's writ runs.
- Within Lololand, of course, no Chinese writ runs, no Chinese magistrate holds sway, and the people, more or less divided among themselves, are under the government of their tribal chiefs.
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archaicThat which is written; writing.
- Then to his hands that writ he did betake, / Which he disclosing, red thus, as the paper spake.
- Babylon, so much spoken of in Holy Writ
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。