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▪ I. † nist for ne wist, knew not: see ne and wit v. Forms: 1, 4–5 nyste, 1–2, 4 neste, 2–5 nuste, 3–4 niste, 4–5 nist, nyst. pl. 1 nyston (-ðon), 2 nesten, nusten, 2, 4 nysten, 4 nisten.
c825Vesp. Psalter lxxii. 22 Ic to nowihte ᵹebeᵹed eam & ic hit nyste. c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxviii. §1 Hi nyston nænne oðerne god on þæne timan. 971Blickl. Hom. 79 Næs þæt na þæt he nyste hwæt se blinda wolde. c1175Lamb. Hom. 93 His wif..nuste hwet hire were ilumpen wes. a1200Moral Ode 229 (Trin. Coll. MS.), Ic wille seggen hit þo þe hit hem self nesten. c1230Hali Meid. 59 Ha nuste hwuch wei ha come þeneward. a1300K. Horn 276 Þe stuard..nuste what to do. c1320Sir Tristr. 246 He nist it whom to wite. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xiii. 25 There I say a maistre; what man he was I neste. 1390Gower Conf. I. 313 Thei nysten what fortune abide. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Roxb.) 52 She astoyned..Was that she nyst what she myght seye. ▪ II. nist(e dial. forms of nice a. |