Definitions
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- transitive verb obsolete To show; to teach; to inform; to guide; to direct.
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- verb archaic to
show ,teach ,inform ,guide ,direct
Etymologies
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Examples
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We are in no way or wisse involved in the vanisshment of the two craft to which you refer.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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We are in no way or wisse involved in the vanisshment of the two craft to which you refer.
Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003
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-- Ne ... wisse (169) W. renders: _Nor had he any desire to do so_; 'his' being obj.gen. = danach.
Beowulf An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem Lesslie [Translator] Hall
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"Serve the king!" they may serve the cobbler well enough, some of 'em, for any courtesy they have, I wisse; they have need o 'mending: unrude people they are, your courtiers; here was thrust upon thrust indeed: was it ever so hard to get in before, trow?
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Dass Christus nach seiner Menschheit durch sein Erhoehung allein erschaffene Gaben und gemessene Gewalt empfangen habe, und nicht alles wisse und vermoege.
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Dass Christus nach seiner Menschheit durch sein Erhoehung allein erschaffene Gaben und gemessene Gewalt empfangen habe, und nicht alles wisse und vermoege.
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_Phaedon Platonis_ in Greek, and that with as much delite as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in _Bocase_, "and when he asked her why she had not gone hunting with the rest, she answered," I wisse, all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in
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Leicestershire, he "found her in her chamber reading _Phædon Platonis_ in Greek, and that with as much delite as some gentlemen would read a merry tale in _Bocase_," and when he asked her why she had not gone hunting with the rest, she answered, "I wisse, [18] all their sport in the park is but a shadow to that pleasure that I find in Plato."
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Was nevere wight, as I wente · that me wisse kouthe [24]
English Satires Various 1885
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After salutation, and dewtie done, with som other taulke, I asked hir, whie she wold leese soch pastime in the Parke? smiling she answered me: I wisse, all their sporte in the Parke is but a shadoe to that pleasure, that I find in Plato: Alas good folke, they neuer felt, what trewe pleasure ment.
The Scholemaster 1870
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