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Wit (wĭt), v. t. & i. [inf. (To) Wit; pres. sing. Wot; pl. Wite; imp. Wist(e); p. p. Wist; p. pr. & vb. n. Wit(t)ing.  See the Note below.] [OE. witen, pres. ich wot, wat, I know (wot), imp. wiste, AS. witan, pres. wāt, imp. wiste, wisse; akin to OFries. wita, OS. witan, D. weten, G. wissen, OHG. wizzan, Icel. vita, Sw. veta, Dan. vide, Goth. witan to observe, wait I know, Russ. vidiete to see, L. videre, Gr. , Skr. vid to know, learn; cf. Skr. vid to find. .  Cf. History, Idea, Idol, -oid, Twit, Veda, Vision, Wise, a. & n., Wot.] To know; to learn.  “I wot and wist alway.”  Chaucer.

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    ☞ The present tense was inflected as follows; sing. 1st pers. wot; 2d pers. wost, or wot(t)est; 3d pers. wot, or wot(t)eth; pl. witen, or wite. The following variant forms also occur; pres. sing. 1st & 3d pers. wat, woot; pres. pl. wyten, or wyte, weete, wote, wot; imp. wuste (Southern dialect); p. pr. wotting. Later, other variant or corrupt forms are found, as, in Shakespeare, 3d pers. sing. pres. wots.

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    Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. 2 Cor. viii. 1.

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    Thou wost full little what thou meanest. Chaucer.

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    We witen not what thing we prayen here. Chaucer.

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    When that the sooth in wist. Chaucer.

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    ☞ This verb is now used only in the infinitive, to wit, which is employed, especially in legal language, to call attention to a particular thing, or to a more particular specification of what has preceded, and is equivalent to namely, that is to say.

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Wite (?), v. t. [AS. wītan; akin to D. wijten, G. verweisen, Icel. vīta to mulct, and E. wit; cf. AS. wītan to see, L. animadvertere to observe, to punish. .  See Wit, v.] To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.  [Obs. or Scot.]  Spenser.

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    Though that I be jealous, wite me not. Chaucer.

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    There if that I misspeak or say,

    Wite it the ale of Southwark, I you pray. Chaucer.

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Wite, n. [AS. wīte punishment. .  See Wite, v.] Blame; reproach.  [Obs. or Scot.]  Chaucer.

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