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wit(2) (iou)



wit verb. .
[Old English witan = Old Frisian wita, Old Saxon witan, Old High German wian (Dutch weten, German wissen), Old Norse vita, Gothic witan, from Germanic base also of WISE adjective, ult. from Indo-European base also of Sanskrit veda (see VEDA), Latin videre see: see also WOT verb1. Cf. GUIDE verb, WEET verb1.]
I. verb trans.
a. Be acquainted with; be aware of; know (a fact or thing). OE.
Spenser The perill of this place I better wot then you. A. Montgomerie All day I wot not what to do. Century Magazine They..witting little that the tide has long since turned.
b. Become aware of, gain knowledge of; find out, ascertain, learn; be informed of. OE-L17.
c. Recognize; distinguish, discern. Long rare or obsolete. ME.
a. Be conversant with or versed in (a subject etc.). OE-ME.
b. Know how or be able to do. Long rare. ME.
Expect (with certainty or confidence) to do. Only in ME.
II. verb intrans.
Be aware of, know of. ME.
A. D. T. Whitney We wit well of many things that we would never prove.
b. Have experience of. Only in LME.
Phrases: God wot: see GOD noun. let wit (a) let (a person) know (something); (b) inform (a person), disclose (something). to wit (a) that is to say, scilicet, namely; (b) to be sure, truly, indeed; (c) Law indicating (and placed after the name of) the venue of a trial.