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单词 do to wit
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wit2 /wit/

transitive verb and intransitive verb (infinitive wit, Spenser, Shakespeare and others weet or weete /wēt/, Spenser weetˈen, also wot /wot/; prt 1st pers sing wot, Scot wat /wöt/, wite or wyte /wīt/; 2nd wost (wottˈest); 3rd wot (wots, wottˈeth), Scot wate, wait, wats; pl 1st, 2nd, 3rd wot; pat wist (wottˈed); prp wittˈing or weetˈing (wottˈing); pap wist) (archaic except in legal use)
  1. To know
  2. To be aware (with of)
  3. To recognize, discern
  4. To know how
ORIGIN: OE witan to know (prt wāt, wāst, wāt, pl witon; pat wiste, or wisse, pl wiston, pap wist); Gothic witan to observe, Ger wissen; cf L vidēre to see; Gr idein

wittˈing noun (obsolete and dialect)

  1. Knowledge
  2. Information
adjective
  1. Cognisant
  2. Conscious
  3. Deliberate

wittˈingly adverb

  1. Knowingly
  2. By design

do to wit

To cause to know

to wit

That is to say, namely (the OE gerund tō witanne)

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