overwit
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]overwit (third-person singular simple present overwits, present participle overwitting, simple past and past participle overwitted)
- (transitive, obsolete) To outwit.
- c. 1728, Jonathan Swift, The Answer to Paulus, an Epigram:
- He knows no guilt, who knows no sin.
Yet well they merit to be pitied,
By clients always overwitted.
References
[edit]- “overwit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.