wist

Verb

wist

1. (archaic) simple past and past participle of wit.
   • a1796, Robert Burns, "Bonie Jean: A Ballad", in Poems and Songs, P.F. Collier & Son (1909–14), Bartleby.com (2001), ,

     And lang ere witless Jeanie wist, / Her heart was tint, her peace was stown!

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

     Did the maledicent Bodyguard, getting (as was too inevitable) better malediction than he gave, load his musketoon, and threaten to fire; and actually fire? Were wise who wist!

Verb

wist (third-person singular simple present wists, present participle wisting, simple past and past participle wisted)

1. (nonstandard, pseudo-archaic) To know, be aware of.

Noun

wist f

1. being, existence
2. well-being

Noun

wist f

1. provisions, food
2. feast, meal
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     Ġemon hē seleseċġas · ond sincþege,
     hū hine on ġeoguðe · his goldwine
     wenede tō wiste · Wyn eal ġedrēas.

     He remembers hall-men and takings of treasures,
     how his goldfriend accustomed him
     to feast on youth. Mirth has completely perished.

3. delicacy
4. abundance, plenty
   • The Legend of St. Andrew in Verse

     ...Ne ġedafenað þē nū þē dryhten ġeaf welan and wiste and woruldspēde,...

     ...It befitteth thee not since to thee the Lord hath given wealth and abundance and worldly prosperity,...

Declension