wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)
(chiefly, Scotland) To blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse
To reproach, censure, mulct
To observe, keep, guard, preserve, protect
wite (plural wites)
(obsolete, outside, Scotland) Blame, responsibility, guilt.
Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.
wite (third-person singular simple present wites, present participle witing, simple past and past participle wited)
(obsolete or poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
Source: Wiktionary
Wite, v. t. Etym: [AS. witan; akin to D. wijten, G. verweisen, Icel. vita to mulct, and E. wit; cf. AS. witan to see, L. animadvertere to observe, to punish. Wit, v.]
Definition: To reproach; to blame; to censure; also, to impute as blame. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser. Though that I be jealous, wite me not. Chaucer. There if that I misspeak or say, Wite it the ale of Southwark, I you pray. Chaucer.
Wite, n. Etym: [AS. wite punishment. Wite, v.]
Definition: Blame; reproach. [Obs. or Scot.] Chaucer.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 April 2024
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
