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wited

wited is the simple past and past participle of wite.

Meaning of wite

Verb (1)

wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)

  1. To regard (someone) as guilty; to accuse; to blame; to fault.
    • [H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 52, page 459
  2. To censure (someone); to mulct; to reproach.
    • [U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, verso
  3. To guard (something); to keep; to observe, preserve, or protect.

Verb (2)

wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)

  1. (poetic, otherwise obsolete) To go; go away; depart; perish; vanish.

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Questions about wited

What is wited the simple past and past participle of?
Wited is the simple past and past participle of wite.

Words near wited in the dictionary

  1. witcraft
  2. Witczak
  3. Witczaks
  4. witdoeke
  5. wite
  6. wited
  7. Witek
  8. Witeks
  9. witeless
  10. witenagemot
  11. witenagemote

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