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▪ I. wist, n. local.|wɪst|
[In Anglo-Latin wista, wysta; ? a use of OE. wist provision, sustenance, applied orig. to an area which provided sustenance for a community of a certain size.]
A Sussex land measure of area, the extent of which has been variously computed (see quots. and J. Tout in Engl. Hist. Rev. XVIII. 705 ff.).
c1180Chron. Monast. de Bello (1846) 11 Octo itaque virgatæ unam hidam faciunt. Wista vero quatuor virgatis constat. Ibid. 17 Dividitur igitur leuga per wistas, quæ aliis in locis virgatæ vocantur. Ibid. 19 In Petlee est una wista in dominio... Ista enim quadraginta viii. acris constat. c1300in Custumals Battle Abbey (Camden) 26 Radulphus Bedellus tenet j wistam. Idem tenet j magnam wistam. c1312Ibid. 100 Virgata seu wysta est sextadecima pars unius feodi militis. Quatuor virgatæ seu wystæ faciunt unam hydam. c1650in Sussex Archæol. Collect. (1853) VI. 236, I doo allowe tithe free, to my Parishioners, for euery Wist of land that they till, one oxe pasture upon the lease. 1799Book of Surveys of D. of Dorset's lands in Sussex (MS), under ‘Lullington’, Upon this Tenant Down the D. of Dorset has a right to stock for two Wists & a half of land sixty sheep for each Wist. 1853Sussex Archæol. Collect. VI. 236 A ‘wist’ in Berwick, according to..the Rev. John Hawes, was ordinarily 16 acres; but he afterwards found that in some of the farms it was 18 acres. In Saxon times the wist was 4 virgates or 60 acres. 1892Vinogradoff Villainage in Eng. 255.
▪ II. † wist, a. Obs. rare.
[app. back-formation from wistly adv.]
Attentive, intent.
1615Crooke Body of Man 550 Motus Tonicus, wee in our Language cal it a Set or wist-looke.
▪ III. wist, v. pseudo-arch.
[Partly from I wist, corrupt form of iwis (see wis v.2); partly erron. use of pa. tense wist of wit v.1]
To know; in quot. 1594 in pa. pple. = caused to know, informed.
[1508,1893: see wis v.2] 1580Lyly Euphues 98 b, You gall mee more with these tearmes, then you wist [ed. 1597 wish, 1606 wisse]. 1594Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits 255 Samuel now wisted [orig. como ya estaua aduertido], that a great stature was no sure token, caused him to be sent for. 1858Buckle Infl. Women Progr. Knowl. Misc. Wks. 1885 I. 68 Though he [sc. Hamlet] wists not of this, he is moved.., and he, like Göthe, takes up a skull, and his speculative faculties begin to work.
▪ IV. wist
var. wisht a.; pa. tense and pple. of wit v.1; erron f. wift, var. of withe. |