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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From Middle English wissen ("to instruct, enlighten, advise, admonish; guide, direct, control, manage, rule"), from Old English wissian ("to direct, instruct, guide, direct, rule; show, point out; declare, make known").

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • -- 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

  • "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?

    In The Yule-Log Glow, Vol. IV (of IV) 1902

  • Dass Christus nach seiner Menschheit durch sein Erhoehung allein erschaffene Gaben und gemessene Gewalt empfangen habe, und nicht alles wisse und vermoege.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Dass Christus nach seiner Menschheit durch sein Erhoehung allein erschaffene Gaben und gemessene Gewalt empfangen habe, und nicht alles wisse und vermoege.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • _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

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

  • 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."

    From Chaucer to Tennyson 1886

  • Was nevere wight, as I wente · that me wisse kouthe [24]

    English Satires Various 1885

  • 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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