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单词 wist
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wistn.

Brit. /wɪst/, U.S. /wɪst/
Etymology: In Anglo-Latin wista, wysta; ? a use of Old English wist provision, sustenance, applied originally to an area which provided sustenance for a community of a certain size.
local.
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.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of area > [noun] > a system or process of measuring land > other units of land measure
wandalec1150
wista1200
landc1400
ridge1439
peck1442
scrophec1450
buttc1460
rig1485
mark1488
stick1531
farthingdeal1543
plough-gang1548
quarterland1563
ploughgate1565
last1576
wand1596
ox-skin1610
garbred1621
plank1631
nooka1634
buttal1635
farthinga1640
rick1641
familia1676
rhandir1688
setiera1690
worthine1701
fierding1768
whip-land1811
rai1933
a1200 Chron. Battle Abbey (1980) 50 Octo itaque uirgate unam hidam faciunt. Wista uero quattuor uirgatis constat.
a1200 Chron. Battle Abbey (1980) 60 Diuiditur igitur leuga per wistas, que aliis in locis uirgate uocantur.
a1200 Chron. Battle Abbey (1980) 62 In Petlee est una wista in dominio... Ista enim quadraginta viii acris constat.
c1300 in Custumals Battle Abbey (Camden) 26 Radulphus Bedellus tenet j wistam. Idem tenet j magnam wistam.
c1312 in Custumals Battle Abbey (Camden) 100 Virgata seu wysta est sextadecima pars unius feodi militis. Quatuor virgatæ seu wystæ faciunt unam hydam.
c1650 in Sussex Archaeol. Coll. (1853) 6 236 I doo allowe tithe free, to my Parishioners, for euery Wist of land that they till, one oxe pasture upon the lease.
1799 Book 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.
1853 Sussex Archaeol. Coll. 6 236 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.
1892 P. G. Vinogradoff Villainage in Eng. 255.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

wistadj.

Etymology: apparently back-formation < wistly adv.
Obsolete. rare.
Attentive, intent.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > attention > earnest attention, concentration > [adjective]
intentivec1386
intendable1390
studiousa1400
diligentc1400
intendantc1440
suspensec1450
attent1482
heartbounda1586
searchful1594
intent1610
wist1615
wistful1616
intense1640
imminent1641
concentrative1725
well-attending1725
acuminated1786
spell-bound1799
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 550 Motus Tonicus, wee in our Language cal it a Set or wist-looke.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online September 2020).

wistv.

Brit. /wɪst/, U.S. /wɪst/
Etymology: Partly < I wist, corrupt form of iwis (see wis v.2); partly erroneous use of past tense wist of wit v.1
pseudo-archaic.
To know; in quot. 1594 in past participle= caused to know, informed.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > have knowledge, know [verb (transitive)]
i-witec900
wit971
yknowOE
canOE
i-kenc1000
seeOE
yknowOE
understanda1131
knowlOE
can (or could) skillc1340
cona1387
havec1405
kyd1530
weeta1547
digest1549
wist1580
wis1606
savvy1686
sabe1850
a1513 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen in Poems (1998) I. 42 Ane was ane wedow, iwis.]
1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 98v You gall mee more with these tearmes, then you wist [1597 wish, 1606 wisse].
1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte Exam. Mens Wits xiv. 255 Samuel now wisted [Sp. como ya estaua aduertido], that a great stature was no sure token, caused him to be sent for.
1614 W. Browne Shepheards Pipe C 6 Better cannot be I wist, Descant on it he that list.
1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads 15 It mov'd and mov'd, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.]
1858 Buckle Infl. Women Progr. Knowl. in 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.
1893 F. Thompson Poems 15 Wings, I wist, Whose amethyst Trepidations have forgone me.]
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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