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WRITE, pret. wrote. pp. writ, written. L.

1. To form by a pen on paper or other material, or by a graver on wood or stone as, to write the characters called letters to write figures. We write characters on paper with pen and ink we write them on stone with a graving tool.

2. To express by forming letters and words on paper or stone as, to write a deed to write a bill of divorcement. The ten commandments were written with the finger of God on tables of stone. Exodus 31 .

3. To engrave. See the preceding definition.

4. To impress durable. Write useful truths on the heart.

5. To compose or produce, as an author.

6. To copy to transcribe.

7. To communicate by letter.

I chose to write the thing I durst not speak to her I lovd.

WRITE,

1. To perform the act of forming characters, letters or figures, as representatives of sounds or ideas. Learn to write when young.

2. To be employed as a clerk or an amanuensis. A writes for B. D writes in one of the public offices.

3. To play the author as, he thinks, he speaks, he writes, he sings.

4. To recite or relate in books. Josephus wrote of the wars of the Jews.

5. To send letters.

He wrote for all the Jews concerning their freedom.

6. To call ones self to be entitled to use the style of.

Those who began to write themselves men, but thought it no shame to learn.

7. To compose to frame or combine ideas and express them in words.

They can write up to the dignity and character of their authors.