Wite
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /waɪt/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Wite is a verb meaning To censure (someone); to mulct, to reproach.
Meaning
To censure (someone); to mulct, to reproach.
More Meanings
- To guard (something); to keep, to observe, preserve, protect.
- Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.
- (chiefly Scotland) To regard (someone) as guilty, to accuse, to blame, to fault.
- (obsolete outside Scotland) Blame, responsibility, guilt.
- (obsolete or poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
Example Sentences
[U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv.
Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.
[H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope.
Word Forms
- wites
- witing
- wited
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include atwite, indict, incriminate, becry, accriminate, argue.
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