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Withed vs Wited - What's the difference?

withed | wited |

As verbs the difference between withed and wited

is that withed is past tense of withe while wited is past tense of wite.

withed

English

Verb

(head)
  • (withe)

    • withe

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flexible, slender twig or shoot, especially when used as a band or for binding; a withy.
  • * 1997': Perhaps indifferent to their social Rejection, he sets to work separating his Tree into Poles, Sticks, and '''Withes , and placing them wherever in the Structures of Dam or Lodge he feels they need to go. — Thomas Pynchon, ''Mason & Dixon
  • (nautical) An iron attachment on one end of a mast or boom, with a ring, through which another mast or boom is rigged out and secured.
  • (architecture) A partition between flues in a chimney.

    • Verb

    (with)
  • To bind with s.
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  • To beat with s.
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    • Anagrams

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    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.
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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
  • *, 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 ----