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单词 witting
释义 I. witting, vbl. n.1 Obs. exc. dial.|ˈwɪtɪŋ|
α. 4 witand, wyttande, 5 wetand; Sc. 5 wyttyn, 5–6 (9 north. dial.) wittin, 6, 9 witten (9 wittance, ? = wittens). β. Ayenb. wytende, -inde. γ. witting, etc.
[Of mixed origin; in the forms witand, wyttande, wetand, a. ON. vitand consciousness, knowledge (f. vita wit v.1) in phr. at minni, várri, etc. vitand to my, our, etc. knowledge; this type is app. in part continued in the Sc. and north. dial. wyttyn, etc.; in Ayenbite (see quots. 1340) in pres. ppl. form wytende, -inde; otherwise f. wit v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The fact of knowing or being aware of something; knowledge, cognizance.
Most commonly with prep. and possessive (or of), as at, by, of, to one's witting (partly after OF. a son escient), to or with one's knowledge, as one knows; as far as one knows; knowingly, wittingly; without one's witting, without one's knowledge, so that one does not know; also but witting, without its being known; with witting, wittingly.
αa1300Cursor M. 29262 [He] mai noght þis cursing scape, Þat comuns wit him þat þe pape Cursd has at his witand.c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xx. (Blasius) 114 Þane rase þe chyld & a-va cane ga As he had wittine of na way.a1400Pistill of Susan 250, I wraþþed þe neuere, at my witand.c1440York Myst. xlv. 72 A! bredir, be my wetand and i-wisse so wer we.1466in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1471 214/2 To gif us lele and trew counsale eftir thare wittin.1474Acta Audit. (1839) 32/1 Be wittin of vmquhile William of Striuelin.1808Jamieson s.v., Without my wittins, without my knowledge.1824Carr Craven Gloss. 124 Bout my wittin, without my knowledge.1828Moir Mansie Wauch vii. 57 Neither word nor wittens of a family, to perpetuate our name to future generations.
β1340Ayenb. 8 Huo þet onworþeþ his uader and his moder be his wytinde..zeneȝeth dyadliche.Ibid. 37 Wyþ⁓oute hare wytende and wyþ-oute hare wylle.
γ1338R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 216 Withouten his conseile, or þe kynges wittyng.13..Cursor M. 23510 (Gött.) Forgiuen er þai [sc. man's sins] and neuer þe less..Vte of his [sc. God's] witting [Cott. witernes, Fairf. witring] be þai neuer.c1374Chaucer Troylus ii. 236 Ye be the womman in þis world lyuynge With-oute paramours to my wytynge That I best loue.Ibid. iv. 991 That god shuld han no parfit cler witynge More þan we men, þat han doutous wenynge.c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 753 With oute wityng of any oother wight.1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. iv. (Skeat) I. 63 [God's] weting and his before-weting is al oon.c1400Apol. Loll. 66 Þei..þat are chargid to sey þe soþe to þer witing.c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. iv. 676 Þe Grekys..þe bodeis cast In til a cistern dep, qwhar þai Lay hid but wyttynge.1445tr. Claudian in Anglia XXVIII. 267 Iustice moevith to preferre right..& wronge nevir yive with wetyng.a1450Myrc 397 That heo avow no maner þynge But hyt be at hys wytynge.c1450Merlin 12 Gode lete me haue delyueraunce yef euer man, my witynge, hadde to do with me.Ibid. 18 The Iuges examyned the gode hermyte yef it were so, and he seide, ‘Ye’, as by his wetynge.1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) i. vii. G vii b, Who so trespasseth vnto his wyttynge ony of the .x. commaundementes, is in deedly synne.a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) Q iii b, He went fro Rome to Salon..without the witting of any person.1560Acts Privy Counc. Irel. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) 99 Without thassentes or witting of the saide freholders.1574Reg. Privy Council Scot. Ser. i. II. 400 [If they be] sufferit to remane thairintill..be our witting.1587Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) III. 464/1 The cuntrie wherin the saidis guidis salbe ressett or remane for the space of tuelff houris of his witting.1621Hakewill David's Vow ii. 46 As..we have action implied in the Verb: so have wee witting, and willing,..implied in the Adverb.1846Brockett N.C. Gloss. (ed. 3), Witting, knowledge, judgment, wit.
2. Knowledge obtained or (esp.) communicated; information, intelligence, tidings, news; notice, warning. (Cf. wit v.1 3.) Chiefly in to get witting or have witting.
1375Barbour Bruce iv. 359 We sall cum thair sa preuely, That thai sall haff na persavyng, Na ȝeit witting of our cummyng.Ibid. v. 540 Quhen men schupe hym to betraiss, He gat vitting tharof alwayis.1417in Rymer Foedera (1710) IX. 427 Kepe this Matere..secre..that never Creature have Wittyng thereof.c1450Merlin 14 When thow shalte be brought oute ageyn to Iugement lete me haue wetynge.Ibid. 45 He merveyled..how merlin myght have witinge ther-of.1497Merton Coll. Rec. No. 1031, The same John Wreyght shall gyve wetyng and warnyng vnto the fermour then beyng.a1513Fabyan Chron. vi. clx. (1811) 150 The sonnis sent wittynge to the pope..requyrynge hym of ayde and counceyll.a1529Skelton Bouge of Court 278 And I knowe ony erthly thynge That is agayne you, ye shall haue wetynge.a1625Purchas Pilgrims II. 1066 To giue him witting thereof.1818Scott Rob Roy xxii, What will come o' ye gin the bailies suld come to get witting?1893W. R. Mackintosh Around Orkney Peat Fires ii. (1905) 34 His scouts..gave him ‘wittance’ of the..scheme.
Used for the infin. in phr. ‘to wit’.
1398,a1440[see wit v.1 B. 10 a, b].
II. witting, vbl. n.2
bequest: see wit v.2
1483Cath. Angl. 421/1 Wyttinge, legacio.
III. ˈwitting, ppl. a.
Forms: see wit v.1 A. 6.
[f. wit v.1 + -ing2.]
a. Chiefly in conjunction with wilfully or willing (see willing ppl. a. 2 f), advb. = wittingly 1.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xix. 368 Lyeres..þat were forsworen ofte, Wytynge [v.r. wytyngli] and willefully with þe false helden.c1450Mirk's Festial 138 Þylke þat don aȝeyne þe constytucyons of holy chyrche wytyng, he ys acurset tyll he come to amendement.1531Tindale Expos. 1 John ii. (1538) F viij b, He..whyche wyttynge and wyllynge shutteth hys eyes at the true lyght.1538Starkey England (1878) 66 No man wyttyng and wyllyng wyl hurt hymselfe.1582T. Watson Centurie of Loue lx, How he witting and wilfully followeth his owne hurt.1600Holland Livy vi. xl. 245 We..have practised nothing, witting and willing,..prejudiciall to the Communaltie.
b. Chiefly predicatively: Aware, cognizant.
1500–20Dunbar Poems ix. 138 Both witting and vnwitting me.a1586Sidney Two Pastorels ii. 29 Seely shepheards are not witting What in art of Loue is fitting.a1629Hinde J. Bruen v. (1641) 19 Using men both witting and unwitting.1894F. S. Ellis Reynard Fox 221 Hither..I..came, To make you witting of the same.1906Macm. Mag. Oct. 885 Scarcely witting, he ran forward.
c. Conscious as an agent; that is consciously what the n. denotes.
1678Littleton Dict., Eng.-Lat., A witwal or wittal, a witting cuckold.1872J. G. Murphy Comm. on Lev. iv. 2 Witting and wilful transgressors.1912Oxf. & Camb. Rev. Nov. 48 [Synge] was a witting artist of marvellous skill.
d. transf. of the action: Done consciously (and so with responsibility), ‘conscious’, deliberate: often in conjunction with willing.
1553Bradford Serm. Repentance (1574) H iij b, This willing and witting offending & synning.1581Hanmer Jesuites Banner 4 b, Wee are all by nature the children of wrath, yet will you not confesse, that the corruption of nature is voluntary and witting.1613Hoby Counter-snarle 55 These his witting falsifications.1629H. Burton Truth's Tri. 316 So..fore-knowledge of God, is his witting and willing act or decree.1879H. Maudsley Pathol. Mind vi. 288 The notion of witting and wilful vice.
IV. witting
obs. Sc. pa. pple. of wit v.1
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