'WOT' definitions:
Definition of 'Wot'
From: GCIDE
- Weet \Weet\, v. i. [imp. Wot.] [See Wit to know.] To know; to wit. [Obs.] --Tyndale. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wot'
From: GCIDE
- Wit \Wit\ (w[i^]t), v. t. & i. [inf. (To) Wit; pres. sing. Wot; pl. Wite; imp. Wist(e); p. p. Wist; p. pr. & vb. n. Wit(t)ing. See the Note below.] [OE. witen, pres. ich wot, wat, I know (wot), imp. wiste, AS. witan, pres. w[=a]t, imp. wiste, wisse; akin to OFries. wita, OS. witan, D. weten, G. wissen, OHG. wizzan, Icel. vita, Sw. veta, Dan. vide, Goth. witan to observe, wait I know, Russ. vidiete to see, L. videre, Gr. ?, Skr. vid to know, learn; cf. Skr. vid to find. ????. Cf. History, Idea, Idol, -oid, Twit, Veda, Vision, Wise, a. & n., Wot.] To know; to learn. "I wot and wist alway." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] [1913 Webster]
- Note: The present tense was inflected as follows; sing. 1st pers. wot; 2d pers. wost, or wot(t)est; 3d pers. wot, or wot(t)eth; pl. witen, or wite. The following variant forms also occur; pres. sing. 1st & 3d pers. wat, woot; pres. pl. wyten, or wyte, weete, wote, wot; imp. wuste (Southern dialect); p. pr. wotting. Later, other variant or corrupt forms are found, as, in Shakespeare,
- 3d pers. sing. pres. wots. [1913 Webster]
- Brethren, we do you to wit [make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia. --2 Cor. viii. 1. [1913 Webster]
- Thou wost full little what thou meanest. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- We witen not what thing we prayen here. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- When that the sooth in wist. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Note: This verb is now used only in the infinitive, to wit, which is employed, especially in legal language, to call attention to a particular thing, or to a more particular specification of what has preceded, and is equivalent to namely, that is to say. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Wot'
From: GCIDE
Acronyms for 'WOT'
From: V.E.R.A.
- Web Of Things (W3C), "WoT"