Wited vs Cited - What's the difference?
wited | cited |
(wite)
(chiefly, Scotland) To blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse
* Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
To reproach, censure, mulct
To observe, keep, guard, preserve, protect
Blame, responsibility, guilt.
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*:And so by fortune the ship drave unto a castle, and was all to-riven, and destroyed the most part. So many lords and barons of this realm were displeased, for their children were so lost, and many put the wite on Merlin more than on Arthur; so what for dread and for love, they held their peace.
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*::And so by fortune the shyp drofe vnto a castel and was al to ryuen and destroyed the most part/ So many lordes and barons of this reame were displeasyd / for her children were so lost / and many put the wyte on Merlyn more than on Arthur / so what for drede and for loue they helde their pees
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, passage=Nor I will not suffer mine indignation so to witwanton with fair justice as persuade me to put the wite on Witchland.}}
Punishment, penalty, fine, bote, mulct.
(obsolete, or, poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish
(cite)
To quote; to repeat, as a passage from a book, or the words of another.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To list the source(s) from which one took information, words or literary or verbal context.
To summon officially or authoritatively to appear in court.
(informal) A citation.
As verbs the difference between wited and cited
is that wited is past tense of wite while cited is past tense of cite.wited
English
Verb
(head)wite
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) , see below.Alternative forms
* wyteVerb
(wit)- As help me God, I shal þee nevere smyte! / Þat I have doon, it is þyself to wyte .
Etymology 2
From (etyl) , see below.Noun
(en noun)The Worm Ouroboros
Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m)Verb
(wit)References
* Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia English terms with homophones ----cited
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* edict ----cite
English
Verb
(cit)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, but could not prove, and would cite as they took to the streets.}}
Derived terms
* citationSee also
* attest * quoteNoun
(en noun)- We used the number of cites as a rough measure of the significance of each published paper.
