| 单词 | common wit |
| 释义 | > as lemmascommon wit common wit n. Philosophy now historical and rare a faculty which unites the impressions of the five senses in a common consciousness; the consciousness produced in this way; = common sense n. 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > [noun] wita1000 i-mindOE mindc1350 common wita1398 advertencec1405 common sense1543 consciousness1678 conscious1852 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > common sense > [noun] witc1175 sensea1382 conscience1449 mother witc1475 common wit1517 common sense1536 philosophy1557 good sense?1562 sconce1567 mother-sense1603 ingenuity1651 bonsense1681 rumgumption1686 nous1706 gumption?1719 rummlegumption1751 savvy1785 horse sense1832 kokum1848 sabe1872 common1899 marbles1902 gump1920 loaf1925 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xxiv. 332 Þe lyme of þe comoun witte [L. organum sensus communis] is ibounde, the whiche lyme is centrum and middel of alle þe parties. 1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) xxiv. 108 These are the fyue wyttes..Fyrst comyn wytte and than ymagynacyon Fantasy and estymacyon truely And memory. 1994 in W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing i. i. 2 (note) Distinguished from the five senses, the five wits were common wit, imagination, fantasy, judgment and memory. common wit a. Any one of certain particular faculties of perception, classified as outer (outward) or bodily, and inner (inward) or ghostly, and commonly reckoned as five of each kind (see 3b): = sense n. 12, 13 (see also inwit n. 2b). Also common wit = common sense n. 5 (In early use occasionally loosely extended to include other bodily faculties, as speech and locomotion.) Obsolete except as in 3b, 3c. ΚΠ ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 53 Þis is nu of þis wit [sc. sight] inoch. a1300 Cursor Mundi 23999 O wijttes all me wantid might, Gang, and steyuen, and tung, and sight. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 251 Þe wyttes of þe zaule. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 467 Nesche is i-knowe by meny wittes, for it is knowe boþe by gropynge and by siȝt. 1422 J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. 242 Al the wittis and meuynges of the body. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 519 He ȝaue to men inward sensityue wittis and outward sensityue wittis. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxiv. ii. 108 These are the .v. wyttes remeuing inwardly: Fyrst, commyn wytte, and than ymaginacyon, Fantasy, and estymacyon truely, And memory. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Ejv In whiche of the ventrycles is the wyt of smellynge founded? 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. iii. 68 Thou hast more of the goose in one of thy wits, than I haue in al my fiue. View more context for this quotation < as lemmas |
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