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.
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   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.
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               thou wost full little what thou meanest.
                                                  --chaucer.
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               we witen not what thing we prayen here.
                                                  --chaucer.
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               when that the sooth in wist.       --chaucer.
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   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 

witting
     adj 1: aware or knowing; "a witting tool of the communists" syn: aware
            ant: unwitting
     2: intentionally conceived; "a conscious effort to speak more
        slowly"; "a conscious policy" syn: conscious
see also:
aware unwitting conscious