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Wit v.3. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wit v.3 [f. WIT sb.] a. intr. with it: To play the wit; to make witty remarks. b. trans. as a meaningless repetition of the word just used, by way of a vague threat. c. trans. To call (a person) a wit, attribute wit to. (All nonce-uses.)

1 1654.  Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. v. 92. They beginne to be wanton, and to wit it one upon another.

2 a. 1662.  Heylin, Laud (1668), 260. Others … impute the Republishing of this Declaration to the new Archbishop,… after he took possession of his Graceship, as Burton doth pretend to wit it in his Pulpit Libell.

3 1679.  Shadwell, True Widow, II. 30. Sel. … I think they are all out of their wits…. Prig. Prithee Stanmore be my Second, I’ll wit him with a Pox to him.

4 1778.  Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, 26 Sept. Dr. Johnson. ‘Why, did Dr. Jebb forbid her wine?’ F. B. ‘Yes, sir.’ Dr. Johnson. ‘Well, he was in the right; he knows how apt wits are to transgress that way….’ In this sort of ridiculous manner he wits me eternally.

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