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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wite \wite\, v. t. as. wimactan; akin to d. wijten, g.
   verweisen, icel. vimacta to mulct, and e. wit; cf. as.
   wimactan to see, l. animadvertere to observe, to punish.
   ????. see wit, v.
   to reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame.
   obs. or scot. --spenser.
   1913 webster

         though that i be jealous, wite me not.   --chaucer.
   1913 webster

         there if that i misspeak or say,
         wite it the ale of southwark, i you pray. --chaucer.
   1913 webster
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wit 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wite \wite\, n. as. wimacte punishment. ????. see wite, v.
   blame; reproach. obs. or scot. --chaucer.
   1913 webster
see also:
wite 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wit \wit\ wi^t, v. t.  i. inf. to wit; pres. sing.
   wot; pl. wite; imp. wiste; p. p. wist; p. pr.  vb.
   n. witting. see the note below. oe. witen, pres. ich
   wot, wat, i know wot, imp. wiste, as. witan, pres. w=at,
   imp. wiste, wisse; akin to ofries. wita, os. witan, d. weten,
   g. wissen, ohg. wizzan, icel. vita, sw. veta, dan. vide,
   goth. witan to observe, wait i know, russ. vidiete to see, l.
   videre, gr. ?, skr. vid to know, learn; cf. skr. vid to find.
   ????. cf. history, idea, idol, -oid, twit, veda,
   vision, wise, a.  n., wot.
   to know; to learn. "i wot and wist alway." --chaucer.
   1913 webster
   1913 webster

   note: the present tense was inflected as follows; sing. 1st
         pers. wot; 2d pers. wost, or wottest; 3d pers. wot,
         or wotteth; pl. witen, or wite. the following variant
         forms also occur; pres. sing. 1st  3d pers. wat, woot;
         pres. pl. wyten, or wyte, weete, wote, wot; imp. wuste
         southern dialect; p. pr. wotting. later, other
         variant or corrupt forms are found, as, in shakespeare,
         3d pers. sing. pres. wots.
         1913 webster

               brethren, we do you to wit make you to know of
               the grace of god bestowed on the churches of
               macedonia.                         --2 cor. viii.
                                                  1.
         1913 webster

               thou wost full little what thou meanest.
                                                  --chaucer.
         1913 webster

               we witen not what thing we prayen here.
                                                  --chaucer.
         1913 webster

               when that the sooth in wist.       --chaucer.
         1913 webster

   note: this verb is now used only in the infinitive, to wit,
         which is employed, especially in legal language, to
         call attention to a particular thing, or to a more
         particular specification of what has preceded, and is
         equivalent to namely, that is to say.
         1913 webster
see also:
wit wot wite wiste wist witting 
history idea idol -oid twit 
veda vision wise 

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