wit

1. Wit
   A mental faculty, or power of the mind; -- used in this sense chiefly in the plural, and in certain phrases; as, to lose one's wits; at one's wits' end, and the like. "Men's wittes ben so dull.", "I will stare him out of his wits ."
2. Wit
   Felicitous association of objects not usually connected, so as to produce a pleasant surprise; also. the power of readily combining objects in such a manner. "The definition of wit is only this, that it is a propriety of thoughts and words; or, in other terms, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to the subject.", "Wit which discovers partial likeness hidden in general diversity.", "Wit lying most in the assemblage of ideas, and putting those together with quickness and variety wherein can be found any resemblance or congruity, thereby to make up pleasant pictures in the fancy."

1. wit
   To know; be or become aware: used with or without an object, the object when present often being a clause or statement. Present tense: I wot (wote), thou wost (erroneously wottest, wotst), he wot (erroneously wotteth); plural we, ye (you), they wit.
2. wit
   Preterit tense: I, etc., wist (erroneously wotted).
3. wit
   Infinitive: wit (to wit); hence, to do to wit, to cause (one) to know.
4. wit
   [The phrase to wit is now used chiefly to call attention to some particular, or as introductory to a detailed statement of what has been just before mentioned generally, and is equivalent to ‘namely,’ ‘that is to say’: as, there were three present—to wit, Mr. Brown. Mr. Green, and Mr. Black.
5. wit
   Present participle: witting, sometimes weeting (erroneously wotting). Compare unwitting.
6. wit
   Past participle: wist.
7. (n) wit
   Knowledge; wisdom; intelligence; sagacity; judgment; sense.
8. (n) wit
   Mind; understanding; intellect; reason; in the plural, the faculties or powers of the mind or intellect; senses: as, to be out of one's wits; he has all his wits about him.
9. (n) wit
   Knowledge; information.
10. (n) wit
    Ingenuity; skill.
11. (n) wit
    Imagination; the imaginative faculty.
12. (n) wit
    The keen perception and apt expression of those connections between ideas which awaken pleasure and especially amusement. See the quotations and the synonyms.
13. (n) wit
    Conceit; idea; thought; design; scheme; plan.
14. (n) wit
    =Syn.6. Wit, Humor. In writers down to the time of Pope wit generally meant the serious kind of wit.
15. (n) wit
    In more recent use wit in the singular generally implies comic wit; in that sense it is different from humor. One principal difference is that wit always lies in some form of words, while humor may be expressed by manner, as a smile, a grimace, an attitude. Underlying this is the fact, consistent with the original meaning of the words, that humor goes more deeply into the nature of the thought, while wit catches pleasing but occult or farfetched resemblances between things really unlike: a good pun shows wit; Iiving's “History of New York” is a piece of sustained humor, the humor lying in the portrayal of character, the nature of the incidents, etc. Again, “Wit may, I think, be regarded as a purely intellectual process, while humor is a sense of the ridiculous controlled by feeling, and coexistent often with the gentlest and deepest pathos” (H. Reed, Lects. on Eng. Lit., xi. 357). Hence humor is always kind, while wit may be unkind in the extreme: Swift's “Travels of Gulliver” is much too severe a satire to be called a work of humor. It is essential to the effect of wit that the form in which it is expressed should be brief; humor may be heightened in its effect by expansion into full forms of statement, description, etc Wit more often than humor depends upon passing circumstances for its effect.
16. (n) wit
    One who has discernment, reason, or judgment; a person of acute perception; especially, one who detects between associated ideas the finer resemblances or contrasts which give pleasure or enjoyment to the mind, and who gives expression to these for the entertainment of others; often, a person who has a keen perception of the incongruous or ludicrous, and uses it for the amusement and frequently at the expense of others.
17. wit
    To play the wit; be witty: with an indefinite it.
18. wit
    See wite.

1. (v.i) Wit
   wit to know
2. (pr.t) Wit
   1st pers. sing. Wot; 2d, Wost (erroneously Wot′test); 3d, Wot (erroneously Wot′teth):—pl. 1st, 2d, 3d, Wot; pa.t. Wist (erroneously Wot′ted); pr.p. Wit′ting, Weet′ing (erroneously Wot′ting); pa.p. Wist
3. (n) Wit
   wit understanding: a mental faculty (chiefly in pl.): the power of combining ideas with a ludicrous effect, the result of this power: ingenuity: :
4. (n) Wit
   wit a person of understanding or judgment, esp. a person who has a keen perception of the ludicrous and can express it neatly.
5. (n) Wit
   wit (rare) imagination
6. (n) Wit
   wit (obs.) information

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