wist

«wist» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: knew — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic word

modern equivalent

knew

part of speech

verb, past tense of wit

meaning for a pupil

Knew; had known. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "knew". The "wist-ful" in the first sentence is a different word meaning longing or sad.

examples

• The wist-ful look in the poor man's face spoke plainer than words. (Fifty Famous Stories Retold) tree →
• ‘Little green toad whose leg doth twist, Go to the corner of which you wist, And bring to me the large old kist.’ (The Yellow Fairy Book) tree →

tests

manual 5; corpora 2 (Torah 0, tales 2, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.2 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary archaic (first sense)

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wist» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.