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▪ I. † i-wite, ywite, v.1 Obs.|ɪ-|
Also 4 ywyte. pa. tense iwiste, iwuste. pa. pple. iwist, iwust, iwiten.
[OE. ᵹewit-an, pa. tense -wiste, pa. pple. witen, f. ᵹe-, i-1 + wit-an to know, to wit.]
1. trans. To understand, know, get to know, learn.
c900tr. Bæda's Hist. iii. vi. [viii.] (1890) 174 Heo..woldon ᵹewitan hwæt þæt wære. c950Lindisf. Gosp. Matt. x. 26 Nowiht [is]..ᵹehyded þæt ne se ᵹewitten. Ibid. John ii. 9 Ða embehtmenn ᵹeuiston ða ðe birladon þæt uæter. c1000Apollonius (Th.) 13 Ga and ᵹewite hwæt se iunga man sy. a1200Moral Ode 382 (Lamb. MS.) Þo scullen more of him..iwiten his mihte & his ore. Ibid. 17 (Trin. MS.) Elde me is bistolen on ar ich hit iwiste. a1225Ancr. R. 64 Iwiteð et ower meiden hwo hit beo þæt is icumen. c1275Passion our Lord 262 in O.E. Misc. 44 Iwyte at heom þat hit iherde, and nouht ne axe me. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 224 Wane he wolde iwite Ȝwat man þe child ssolde be. 1340Ayenb. 29 Þou sselt ywyte þet þer byeþ zix zennes. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. iv. 76 Let nat þy lyft half..Ywite what þow delest with þy ryht syde. c1460Launfal 866 Ye schull y wyte, seyde the mayde, For sche cometh ryde.
2. To watch, guard, preserve.
c1205Lay. 13570 We habbeoð ibeon..iwurðed þurh þinne stiwærd, þe haueð iwiten al þis ærd. a1240Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 247 Ne bið neauer his hus for þeos hinen wel iwist. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 5540 In þe kinges tresorie þat suerd iwust ys. 1340Ayenb. 212 Sire, ywyte ous, uor we spilleþ.
▪ II. † i-wite, v.2 Obs.|iː-|
Also 3 i-whiten, -wihten. pa. tense iwat, pa. pple. iwiten.
[OE. ᵹewítan, to look at; to turn one's eyes towards a place with the intention of going thither; to depart, go away; to die, f. ᵹe-, i-1 + wítan to see: see wite v.1]
intr. To go away, depart; to decease, die.
971Blickl. Hom. 233 Gif we ᵹewitaþ fram þe, þonne beo we fremde from eallum þæm godum þe þu us ᵹeᵹearwodest. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 64 Nacode we wæron acennede and nacode we ᵹewitaþ. c1175Lamb. Hom. 93 Þa feol heo þer adun and iwat. c1205Lay. 13244 Wes i þere ilke wike þe ærchebiscop forð iwiten. Ibid. 17235 He sæt stille alse þeh he wolde of worlden iwiten. Ibid. 21311 Þe wulf heom to iwiteð and alle heom abiteð. Ibid. 25616 Þene beore he ismat þat he to þere eorþe iwhat.
▪ III. i-wite(n
ME. pa. pple. of wite v., to blame. |