Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Wite"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wit \Wit\, v. t. & i. [inf. (To) {Wit}; pres. sing. {Wot}; pl.
{Wite}; imp. {Wist(e)}; p. p. {Wist}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Wit(t)ing}. See the Note below.] [OE. witen, pres. ich wot,
wat, I know (wot), imp. wiste, AS. witan, pres. w[=a]t, 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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wite \Wite\, v. t. [AS. w[=i]tan; akin to D. wijten, G.
verweisen, Icel. v[=i]ta to mulct, and E. wit; cf. AS.
w[=i]tan 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.
Though that I be jealous, wite me not. --Chaucer.
There if that I misspeak or say, Wite it the ale of
Southwark, I you pray. --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Wite \Wite\, n. [AS. w[=i]te punishment. ????. See {Wite}, v.]
Blame; reproach. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer.
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