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.
Write, v. i. 1. To form characters, letters, or figures, as
representative of sounds or ideas; to express words and sentences by
written signs. Chaucer.
So it stead you, I will write, Please you command.
Shak.
2. To be regularly employed or occupied in writing, copying, or
accounting; to act as clerk or amanuensis; as, he writes in one of the
public offices.
3. To frame or combine ideas, and express them in written words; to
play the author; to recite or relate in books; to compose.
They can write up to the dignity and character of the authors.
Felton.