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--Entrepreneurialdna (talk) 10:50, 21 February 2012 (UTC) WIST - a word, not used for many years, has in four letters the ability to help pin-point direction. To know, to learn and connected to Wit, the ability to call attention to a point.

Wist \Wist\, archaic imp. & p. p. of Wit, v. Knew. [1913 Webster]

Wit \Wit\ (w[i^]t), v. t. & i. [inf. (To) Wit; pres. sing. Wot; pl. Wite; imp. Wist(e); p. p. Wist; p. pr. & vb. n. Wit(t)ing. See the Note below.]

[OE. witen, pres. ich wot, wat, I know (wot), imp. wiste, AS. witan, pres. w[=a]t, imp. wiste, wisse; akin to OFries. wita, OS. witan, D. weten, G. wissen, OHG. wizzan, Icel. vita, Sw. veta, Dan. vide, Goth. witan to observe, wait I know, Russ. vidiete to see, L. videre, Gr. ?, Skr. vid to know, learn; cf. Skr. vid to find. ????. Cf. History, Idea, Idol, -oid, Twit, Veda, Vision, Wise, a. & n., Wot.]

To know; to learn. "I wot and wist alway." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]

Note: The present tense was inflected as follows; sing. 1st pers. wot; 2d pers. wost, or wot(t)est; 3d pers. wot, or wot(t)eth; pl. witen, or wite. The following variant forms also occur; pres. sing. 1st & 3d pers. wat, woot; pres. pl. wyten, or wyte, weete, wote, wot; imp. wuste (Southern dialect); p. pr. wotting. Later, other variant or corrupt forms are found, as, in Shakespeare, 3d pers. sing. pres. wots. [1913 Webster]

Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. --2 Cor. viii. 1. [1913 Webster]

Thou wost full little what thou meanest. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

We witen not what thing we prayen here. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

When that the sooth in wist. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]

Note: This verb is now used only in the infinitive, to wit, which is employed, especially in legal language, to call attention to a particular thing, or to a more particular specification of what has preceded, and is equivalent to namely, that is to say. [1913 Webster]

Also see WIT

wit noun /wit/ wits, plural

Mental sharpness and inventiveness; keen intelligence - he does not lack perception or native wit

The intelligence required for normal activity; basic human intelligence - he needed all his wits to figure out the way back

A natural aptitude for using words and ideas in a quick and inventive way to create humor - a player with a sharp tongue and a quick wit

A person who has such an aptitude - she is such a wit

verb wist, past participle; wist, past tense; witting, present participle; wot, 3rd person singular present

Have knowledge - I addressed a few words to the lady you wot of - I wot that but too well

That is to say (used to make clearer or more specific something already said or referred to) - the textbooks show an irritating parochialism, to wit an almost total exclusion of papers not in English