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单词 high-witted
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high-witted
high-witted adj. Obsolete
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c1425 Serm. (BL Add.) in G. Cigman Lollard Serm. (1989) 61 Þat þis blessid chyld, aftur þat he was born, was leid in stide of his cradel in a cracche..bitokeneþ not onely þat he came to saue hiȝe wyttede men and grete clerkis, but also semple, bustis, beestliche men.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 7v This high witted manne dyd euidently shewe that thyng that maketh vs false herted in takyng peines and laboures, to be rather our imaginacion and conceipte, then the veray laboures in deede.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus iv. iv. 35 Hie witted Tamora. View more context for this quotation
1651 J. Rocket Christian Subj. i. 3 High witted, boasting, and verball professors, that practised and professed themselves polemical, critical, and much historicall in Divinity.
1870 W. H. Sparks Mem. Fifty Years xxiv. 355 High-spirited or high-witted men, whose souls, when mellowed with glorious wine, leap from their lips sublimated in words swollen with wit.
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