intransitive verb. undefined

noun. Preterit of wit.

A spurious word, improperly used as present indicative (wists) of wit.

verb. Knew.

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of wit.

verb. To know, be aware of.

"The language, too, is not obtrusively archaic as it is in Chatterton and some of the Spenserians; at most an occasional "wist" or "eftsoons"; now and then a light accent, in ballad fashion, on the final syllable of a rime-word like mariner or countrie."

Liszt  assist  cist  coexist  consist  

aforehand  alongst  bated  blue-skied  bézique  

knew  

wisted  wisting  wists