† uþwite Obs.
[OE. {uacu}þwita, f. {uacu}þ- (Goth. unþa-) away, beyond + wita one who knows, wite n.]
A wise man; a sage.
| c 888 K. ælfred Boeth. xxxiii. §4 Swa swa ure uðwita sæde, Plato. c 1000 Menologium 166 in O.E. Chron. (1892) I. 278 Swa hit foregleawe ealde uþwitan æror fundan. c 1200 Ormin 7083 Þa þatt sohhtenn Jesu Crist Wæren Magy ȝehatenn,..Uþwitess swiþe wise. |