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.

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.

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.

So it stead you, I will write,
Please you command. Shak.

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

He wrote for all the Jews that went out of his realm up into Jewry concerning their freedom. 1 Esdras iv. 49.