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To know; to learn. "I wot and wist alway." Chaucer. Note: The present tense was inflected as follows; sing. 1st pers. wot; 2d pers. wost, or wot est; 3d pers. wot, or wot eth; pl. witen, or wite. The following variant forms also occur; pres. sing.

Additional info about word: WIT

To know; to learn. "I wot and wist alway." Chaucer. Note: The present tense was inflected as follows; sing. 1st pers. wot; 2d pers. wost, or wot est; 3d pers. wot, or wot 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 ; p. pr. wotting. Later, other variant or corrupt forms are found, as, in Shakespeare, 3d pers. sing. pres. wots. Brethren, we do you to wit of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. 2 Cor. viii. 1. Thou wost full little what thou meanest. Chaucer. We witen not what thing we prayen here. Chaucer. When that the sooth in wist. Chaucer. Note: 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. (more info) witan, pres. wat, 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. vid to know, learn; cf. Skr. vid to find. History, Idea, Idol, -

Related words: (words related to WIT)

• PRESENT
  one, in sight or at hand, p. p. of praeesse to be before; prae before 1. Being at hand, within reach or call, within certain contemplated limits; -- opposed to absent. These things have I spoken unto you, being yet present with you. John xiv. 25.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• PRESENTIVE
  Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination; -- distinguished from symbolic. How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries. Earle. --
• PRESENTANEOUS
  Ready; quick; immediate in effect; as, presentaneous poison. Harvey.
• PRESENTLY
  1. At present; at this time; now. The towns and forts you presently have. Sir P. Sidney. 2. At once; without delay; forthwith; also, less definitely, soon; shortly; before long; after a little while; by and by. Shak. And presently the fig tree
• LEARN
  linon, for lirnon, OHG. lirnen, lernen, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l to teach, OS. lerian, OHG.leran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted ; all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf.
• PRESENTER
  One who presents.
• OCCUR
  1. To meet; to clash. The resistance of the bodies they occur with. Bentley. 2. To go in order to meet; to make reply. I must occur to one specious objection. Bentley. 3. To meet one's eye; to be found or met with; to present itself; to offer;
• PRESENTIMENT
  Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding.
• WITEN
  pl. pres. of Wit. Chaucer.
• INFLECT
  To vary, as a noun or a verb in its terminations; to decline, as a noun or adjective, or to conjugate, as a verb. 3. To modulate, as the voice. (more info) 1. To turn from a direct line or course; to bend; to incline, to deflect; to curve; to bow.
• PRESENTIATE
  To make present.
• INFLECTIONAL
  Of or pertaining to inflection; having, or characterized by, inflection. Max Müller.
• ALWAY
  Always. I would not live alway. Job vii. 16.
• FOLLOWING
  1. One's followers, adherents, or dependents, collectively. Macaulay. 2. Vocation; business; profession.
• PRESENTIAL
  Implying actual presence; present, immediate. God's mercy is made presential to us. Jer. Taylor. -- Pre*sen"tial*ly, adv.
• OCCURSE
  See BENTLEY
• TENSE
  One of the forms which a verb takes by inflection or by adding auxiliary words, so as to indicate the time of the action or event signified; the modification which verbs undergo for the indication of time. Note: The primary simple tenses are three:
• LEARNER
  One who learns; a scholar.
• FOLLOWING SURFACE
  See ABOVE
• HALF-LEARNED
  Imperfectly learned.
• NONPRESENTATION
  Neglect or failure to present; state of not being presented.
• REPRESENTABLE
  Capable of being represented.
• TOTIPRESENT
  Omnipresence. A. Tucker.
• OMNIPRESENTIAL
  Implying universal presence. South.
• INVARIANT
  An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linear transformations. J. J. Sylvester.
• REPRESENTANT
  Appearing or acting for another; representing.
• IRREPRESENTABLE
  Not capable of being represented or portrayed.
• INTENSE
  to stretch: cf. F. intense. See Intend, and cf. Intent, and cf. 1. Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought. 2. Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as:
• RE-PRESENTATION
  The act of re-presenting, or the state of being presented again; a new presentation; as, re-presentation of facts previously stated.
• PRETENSELESS
  Not having or making pretenses.
• INTENSENESS
  The state or quality of being intense; intensity; as, the intenseness of heat or cold; the intenseness of study or thought.