Wist

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Past tense and past participle of wit2.
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  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of wit.
  • v. To know, be aware of.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. Knew.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Preterit of wit.
  • A spurious word, improperly used as present indicative (wists) of wit.
    • Word Usage
    "The language, too, is not obtrusively archaic as it is in Chatterton and some of the Spenserians; at most an occasional "wist" or "eftsoons"; now and then a light accent, in ballad fashion, on the final syllable of a rime-word like mariner or countrie."
    Verb Form
    wisted    wisting    wists   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    knew   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Liszt    assist    cist    coexist    consist    cyst    delist    desist    dismissed    enlist   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bézique    wantest    alongst    blue-skied    phlebotomy    aforehand    company    posthaste    picquet    nosebag   
     
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