Wit

Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.

Thou wost full little what thou meanest.

We witen not what thing we prayen here.

When that the sooth in wist.

Who knew the wit of the Lord? or who was his counselor?

A prince most prudent, of an excellent
And unmatched wit and judgment.

Will puts in practice what wit deviseth.

He wants not wit the dander to decline.

I will stare him out of his wits.

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.

In Athens, where books and wits were ever busier than in any other part of Greece, I find but only two sorts of writings which the magistrate cared to take notice of; those either blasphemous and atheistical, or libelous.

Intemperate wits will spare neither friend nor foe.

A wit herself, Amelia weds a wit.

But my five wits nor my five senses can
Dissuade one foolish heart from serving thee.