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Definition: Wot
Weet
\Weet\, v. i. [imp.
Wot.] [See
Wit to know.]
To know; to wit. [Obs.] --Tyndale. Spenser.
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Wit
\Wit\ (w[i^]t), 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. w[=a]t,
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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Note: 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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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.
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Wot
\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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