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W0189800 (wĭt) n. 1. a. The natural ability to perceive and understand; intelligence. b. often wits Practical intelligence; shrewdness or resourcefulness: living by one's wits. c. wits Sound mental faculties; sanity: scared out of my wits. d. Archaic A person of exceptional intelligence. 2. a. The ability to express oneself intelligently in a playful or humorous manner, often in overturning audience expectations: a writer with a scintillating wit. b. A person noted for this ability, especially in conversation: "My mother, the family wit and teaser, knew better than to joke about the disaster" (Donald Hall). c. Intelligent playfulness or humor in expression, as in speech, writing, or art: novels known for their wit and inventiveness. Idioms: at (one's) wits' end At the limit of one's mental resources; utterly at a loss. have (or keep) (one's) wits about (one)To remain alert or calm, especially in a crisis.

[Middle English, from Old English; see weid- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]

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W0189800 (wĭt)v. wist (wĭst), wit·ting (wĭt′ĭng), first and third person singular present tense wot (wŏt) Archaic v.tr. To be or become aware of; learn.v.intr. To know.Idiom: to wit That is to say; namely.

[Middle English, from Old English witan; see weid- in Indo-European roots.]

Thesaurus

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to wit - as followsnamely, that is to say, videlicet, viz.

Translations

à savoirc'est-à-direciocioènamelijkte weten

to wit

That is; more precisely; namely. Often used in technical or formal writing. The officer testified to having found several grams of a Class B narcotic, to wit, cocaine, on the defendant's person at the time of arrest. The plot is absolutely absurd, such as it is—to wit, an axe-wielding murderer teams up with a cyborg cop to stop an alien invasion.See also: wit

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namely; that is; that is to say. The criminal was punished; to wit, he received a 20-year sentence. Many students, to wit Mary, Bill, Sue, and Anne, complained about their teacher.See also: wit

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That is to say, namely, as in There are three good reasons for not going, to wit, we don't want to, we don't have to, and we can't get a reservation . This expression comes from the now archaic verb to wit, meaning "know or be aware of," not heard except in this usage. [Late 1500s] See also: wit

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(old-fashioned, formal) used when you are about to be more exact about something you have just referred to: I told him I only spoke one foreign language, to wit French.See also: wit

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That is to say; namely.See also: wit

to wit

Namely, that is to say. This expression comes from the sixteenth-century archaic verb to wit, meaning to know or be aware of. The current usage has long been a cliché. It often appears before a list of some kind, as in, “His whole family plans to attend, to wit, his parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, and cousins.”See also: wit

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