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  2  definitions  found 
 
  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  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  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}]




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