Wite

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wite \Wite\, v. t. [AS. w[imac]tan; akin to D. wijten, G.
     verweisen, Icel. v[imac]ta to mulct, and E. wit; cf. AS.
     w[imac]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.


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           Though that I be jealous, wite me not.   --Chaucer.
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           There if that I misspeak or say,
           Wite it the ale of Southwark, I you pray. --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wite \Wite\, n. [AS. w[imac]te punishment. ????. See {Wite}, v.]
     Blame; reproach. [Obs. or Scot.] --Chaucer.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Wit \Wit\ (w[i^]t), 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.
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     Note: The present tense was inflected as follows; sing. 1st
           pers. wot; 2d pers. wost, or wot(t)est; 3d pers. wot,
           or wot(t)eth; 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.
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                 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.
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