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English Dictionary: wrote by the DICT Development Group
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Write \Write\, v. t. [imp. {Wrote}; p. p. {Written}; Archaic
      imp. & p. p. {Writ}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Writing}.] [OE. writen,
      AS. wr[c6]tan; originally, to scratch, to score; akin to OS.
      wr[c6]tan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to
      rend, G. reissen, OHG. r[c6]zan, Icel. r[c6]ta to write,
      Goth. writs a stroke, dash, letter. Cf. {Race} tribe,
      lineage.]
      1. 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.
  
      2. 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.
  
                     Last night she enjoined me to write some lines to
                     one she loves.                                    --Shak.
  
                     I chose to write the thing I durst not speak To her
                     I loved.                                             --Prior.
  
      3. Hence, to compose or produce, as an author.
  
                     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.
  
      4. To impress durably; to imprint; to engrave; as, truth
            written on the heart.
  
      5. To make known by writing; to record; to prove by one's own
            written testimony; -- often used reflexively.
  
                     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.
  
      {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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrote \Wrote\, v. i. [OE. wroten. See 1st {Root}.]
      To root with the snout. See 1st {Root}. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Wrote \Wrote\,
      imp. & archaic p. p. of {Write}.
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