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   Weet, v. i. [imp. Wot .] [See Wit to know.] To know; to wit.  [Obs.]
   Tyndale. Spenser.
   
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   Wit , 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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   Wot , 1st & 3d pers. sing. pres. of Wit, to know.  See the Note under Wit, v. [Obs.]
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   Brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it.
   Acts iii. 17.
   
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