| 单词 | light-witted |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslight-witted 1. Having wit or wits (of a specified quality or amount): with qualifying adverb, as well-witted adj., etc. (obsolete), or in parasynthetic combinations with an adjective, as dull-witted, fine-witted, half-witted, gross-witted, light-witted, quick-witted, sharp-witted, slow-witted, etc.; also in nonce-formations after half-witted adj., as two-third-witted, whole-witted.†Also (in form witti'd, influenced by witty adj.) in combination wealth-witti'd (? whose wits consist in wealth). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > intelligence, cleverness > [adjective] keena1000 nimbleOE wittya1100 smeighc1200 understandingc1200 aperta1330 skillwisea1340 witted1377 intelligiblea1382 well-feelinga1382 knowinga1398 finec1400 large?a1425 well-knowingc1425 of understanding1428 capax1432 sententiousc1440 well-wittedc1450 intellectual?a1475 clean1485 industriousc1487 intellective1509 cleanlyc1540 ingenious?a1560 fine-headed1574 conceited1579 conceitful1594 intelligenced1596 dexter1597 ingenuous1598 intelligent1598 senseful1598 parted1600 thinking1605 dexterical1607 solert1612 apprehensivea1616 dexterous1622 solertic1623 intelligential1646 callent1656 cunning1671 thoughtful1674 perceptive1696 clever1716 uptaking1756 spiritual1807 bright1815 gnostic1819 knowledgeable1825 brainy1845 opulent1851 opening1872 super-cerebral1916 brainiac1976 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. x. 397 Wyse witted men and wel ylettred clerkes. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 409 Þe scharpest witted men. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xii. 235 Ryght wel ywittede men and wel lettred clerkes. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xxvi. 253 He was merueillously wytted. 1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 213/2 Diuers yonge scolars..properly witted, feately lerned. 1532 T. More Confut. Barnes in Wks. (1557) 749/2 Had he no learning at all, and wer witted but right meanely. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God v. xxvi. 233 Claudian..was..elegantly wittied [1620 witted]. 1624 A. Holland in J. Davies (Heref.) Scourge Paper-Persecutors 3 Wealth witti'd Loobies. 1642 J. Eaton Honey-combe Free Justific. 44 Conceiving it after a carnall humane-witted fashion. 1834 C. F. Hoffman Let. 18 Feb. in Winter in West (1835) II. 24 A forward, two-third witted fellow. 1904 A. C. Bradley Shakespearean Trag. 313 A quick-witted though not whole-witted lad. < as lemmas |
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