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Wited vs Wisted - What's the difference?

wited | wisted |

As verbs the difference between wited and wisted

is that wited is past tense of wite while wisted is past tense of wist.

wited

English

Verb

(head)
  • (wite)

    • wite

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) , see below.

    Alternative forms

    * wyte

    Verb

    (wit)
  • (chiefly, Scotland) To blame; regard as guilty, fault, accuse
  • * Late 14th century , Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Wife of Bath's Tale’, Canterbury Tales :
    • As help me God, I shal þee nevere smyte! / Þat I have doon, it is þyself to wyte .
  • To reproach, censure, mulct
  • To observe, keep, guard, preserve, protect

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , see below.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Blame, responsibility, guilt.
  • *:
  • *: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.
  • *:• :
  • *::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
  • *, title= The Worm Ouroboros
    • , publisher= , 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.

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) (m)

    Verb

    (wit)
  • (obsolete, or, poetic) To go, go away, depart, perish, vanish

    • References

    * Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia English terms with homophones ----

    wisted

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (wist)

    • Anagrams

    *

    wist

    English

    Etymology 1

    Past indicative of (m): from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (m).

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (wit)
  • * a''1796 , , "Bonie Jean: A Ballad", in ''Poems and Songs , P.F. Collier & Son (1909–14), Bartleby.com (2001), [http://www.bartleby.com/6/419.html],
    • And lang ere witless Jeanie wist , / Her heart was tint, her peace was stown!

    Etymology 2

    A misunderstanding, or a joking use of the past indicative of (m): from (etyl) (m), from (etyl) . Compare (m).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nonstandard, pseudo-archaic) To know, be aware of.
    • Usage notes
    * (rft-sense) This use of wist was never a part of the regular English language; rather, it resulted from the erroneous attempted use of archaisms.

    Anagrams

    * English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms ----