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Wist

wɪst
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Wist
    Knew.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) wist
    Preterit of wit.
  2. wist
    A spurious word, improperly used as present indicative (wists) of wit.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (v.pa.t) Wist
    wist (B.) knew.
Quotations
Oscar Wilde
I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky.
Oscar Wilde
Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary A.S. wiste, pa.t. of witan, 3d pers. sing. pr.t. wát, to know. Cf. Wit.

Usage in the news

Scarlett wistful about marriage, jealous of Lively. nypost.com

When Matthew Smith talks about that incident back in November 1975, he seems intelligent, energetic, frustrated and perhaps a bit wistful about the way things might have been. riverreporter.com

Sondheim's ' Merrily We Roll Along' gets wistful. the-review.com

Rogan & Wist Receive OC Lions Club Highest Award. mdcoastdispatch.com

Mon, 17 Sep 2012 Figure, Propellerhead's best selling music app for iPhone and iPod touch, now supports AudioCopy and WIST . emusician.com

Diana Krall Offers Wistful Take on 'Wide River to Cross'. rollingstone.com

Will Kyle Orton make Chicago Bears wistful as new Kansas City Chiefs quarterback. ashingtonpost.com

Dan Doctoroff Is Not Wistful for Olympic Bid He Says Helped City, Even If Maybe It Didn't. observer.com

Daniels, Pence may watch wistfully . ibj.com

Wistfully nostalgic Mexican dance party. eastbayexpress.com

Stacy Peralta's latest documentary looks back at glory days of the streetside sport with a tad more wistfulness than his 'Dogtown and Z-Boys.'. b1029.com

The Hold Steady were wizened, wistful veterans when they started. villagevoice.com

I am enjoying those last wistful days of summer in my country garden. timesobserver.com

Glee 's Dianna Agron didn't exactly sing a wistful ballad following her split from actor Alex Pettyfer after nearly a year together. usmagazine.com

Whatever, it seems the prevailing mode of bands now is one of wistful reflection on things just out of the reach of the recent past. thephoenix.com

Usage in scientific papers

Lemma 3.6 Let w = q−1σk 1 q be a braid word such that the I sH alf T wist(w, k) function returns false.
Identifying Half-Twists Using Randomized Algorithm Methods

Proposition 3.7 The complexity of the I sH alf T wist algorithm is bounded by O(n2 · log(n) · k2 · l3 ), where n is the number of strings, k = deg(w) and l = len(w).
Identifying Half-Twists Using Randomized Algorithm Methods

This yields the total of O(n2 · log(n) · k2 · l3 ) as the total complexity bound for the I sH alf T wist algorithm.
Identifying Half-Twists Using Randomized Algorithm Methods

In this section, we will give the random core of the algorithm, the T estRandomH alf T wist procedure.
Identifying Half-Twists Using Randomized Algorithm Methods

The first is when I sH alf T wist returns true, this happens when no question about the correctness of the answer exists, therefore one can return the computed result.
Identifying Half-Twists Using Randomized Algorithm Methods

Usage in literature

Her eyes looked very large and wistful. "The Love Affairs of Pixie" by Mrs George de Horne Vaizey

He told her so, and she smiled up at him wistfully. "Mistress Anne" by Temple Bailey

Many a wistful look, besides, was directed to the principal figure in this ceremonial, Ranulph Rookwood. "Rookwood" by William Harrison Ainsworth

Bear in mind the gentlewoman looks to see Amphillis, not you, and make sure that she wist which is she. "The White Lady of Hazelwood" by Emily Sarah Holt

Occasionally he listened wistfully to the sounds outside and they made him wish he could see as well as hear. "Tom Slade on a Transport" by Percy Keese Fitzhugh

Chicken Little looked out of the window wistfully. "Chicken Little Jane" by Lily Munsell Ritchie

Worth watched him wistfully. "Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904" by Lucy Maud Montgomery

For his mother's words had moved him and a pair of wistful, brown eyes were looking at him from the dying embers and from the darkness without. "Allison Bain" by Margaret Murray Robertson

It was not an impertinent gaze like that of Squire Bayfield's, it was simply one of almost wistful earnestness. "Bristol Bells" by Emma Marshall

But I am no great talker, as thou well wist. "Joyce Morrell's Harvest" by Emily Sarah Holt

Usage in poetry
And yet he smiles so wistfully
Once he has crept within,
I wonder if he hopes to see
The man I might have been.
We sat, and yet I could not speak,
But still as the soft air
Look'd wistfully upon her cheek,
And on the shadow there.
And oft it said: "I love thee true,
Sir Ewain, champion of the fair."
And never wist he what a witch
Was that one there.
"It ceased; and, kneeling down, I felt
Laid on me ere I wist,
Soft as a summer's mid-day wind,
The mighty palm of Christ.
En, ongeboren Tijd,
Nacht!--laat ons een licht venster
in uw zwaar zwart:
dat daar mijn hart
veilig een hoofdje wist en roodgoud haar-geglinster,
mijn Kind!
Ah, Saint, there are who in the heavenly places,
After the Vision of the Form Divine,
Shall greet not one among the blissful faces
More wistfully than thine!