the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
verb-intransitive. To root with the snout. See 1st root.
imp. & archaic p. p. of write.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Preterit and obsolete or vulgar past participle of write.
A Middle English form of root.
Word Usage
"If the question is reduced to one of great names, into the other side of the scales may be thrown not two but dozens of the most illustrious men who not only wrote, but _became famous mainly because they wrote_."