wite

Definition

To regard (someone) as guilty, to accuse, to blame, to fault.

Etymology

From Middle English wīten (“to accuse, reproach, punish, suspect”), Old English wītan (“to look, behold, see, guard, keep, impute or ascribe to, accuse, reproach, blame”), from Proto-West Germanic *wītan, from Proto-Germanic *wītaną. Connected to Old English wīte, see below.

Example Sentences

• "[H]e gan fovvly vvyte / His vvicked fortune, that had turnd aſlope, / And curſed night, that reſt from him ſo goodly ſcope."
• "[U]niuſtly thou doeſt vvyte them all, / For that vvhich thou miſlikedſt in a fevv."