Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Preterit of
wit . - A spurious word, improperly used as present indicative (wists) of wit.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb Knew.
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- verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
wit . - verb nonstandard To
know ,be aware of.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The language, too, is not obtrusively archaic as it is in Chatterton and some of the Spenserians; at most an occasional "wist" or "eftsoons"; now and then a light accent, in ballad fashion, on the final syllable of a rime-word like mariner or countrie.
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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Amphillis, not you, and make sure that she wist which is she.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Finally, many (if not most) of the questions are poorly translated into English such that there is one typo ( "wist" instead of "fist"), idiosyncratic word usage, and several unclear meanings.
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But any two consenting adults who wist to enter into this civil institution should be allowed to, in my opinion.
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May 10, 2010 at 11:25 pm iz fak toe ree re-furb stil, win xp but lotsa bellz an wist holes
Video: Kitteh Loves Llama - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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"And I am actually quite efficient," she said wist fully to Hal as he watched her groom Valiant in the grassy paddock the evening before leaving for Hampton Court.
Dearly Beloved 2010
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The New York Times described the album as having "a mood of edgy, sophisticated wist - fulness."
ɘloЯ 2010
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The wist at the end not in the movie comes when someone tells Gort, the robot that we Earthlings never meant to harm his master.
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I use the wist method on mine.every week or so I open the battery compartment and turn over the batteries in the holder in my hearing device the batteries do not last long, but with this method I get a week or so more life out of a pair of AAA's maruawe42
Squeeze Every Ounce Of Power From Your Disposable Batteries | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I bet you play a good hand od wist, too, or is that whishful thinking?
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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Chapter 137, in which CDC gets all peeved up.
December 16, 2013
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OED
wist. - To have cognizance or knowledge of; to be aware of; to know (as a fact or an existing thing).
September 12, 2018