witty (wit i)

[ One who has developed into a wit. [Rare.] Ful . What hast thou done With thy poor innocent self? Gal. Wherefore, sweet madam? Ful . Thus to come forth, so suddenly, a witworm ? B. Jonson, Cat i line, ii. 1. wive (wiv), v.; v.; pret. and pp. wived, ppr. wiving. [ Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. Shak., M. of V., ii. 9. 83. A shrewd wife brings thee bate, wiue not and neuer thriue. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 171. II. trans. 1. To match to a wife; provide with a wife. An I could get me but a wife,... I were manned, horsed, and wived . Shak ., 2 Hen. IV., i. 2. 61. The wyttiour that eny wight is bote yf he worche therGregory VII.. determined. that no wived priest should celebrate or even a ist at the Ma . after, The biter our he shal a-bygge bote yf he wel worche. Encyc. Brit ., V. 293. Piers Plowman (C), xvii. 219. 2. To take for a wife; marry. [Rare.] A witty man taketh preved thinge, and channge He maketh, that lande from lande be not to strange. Palladius , Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 64. Tamb . Are you the witty King of Persia? Myc . Ay, marry am I: have you any suit to me? Marlowe , Tamburlaine, I., ii. 4. Shak ., Rich. III., iv. 2. 42. Should I wive an Empre e, And take her dowerle e, should we love, or hate, In that my bounty equalls her estate. Heywood, Royal King (Works, ed. Pearson, 1874, VI. 79). I have wived his sister. Scott . Tamb . I would entreat you speak but three wise words. wivehoodł (wiv'hud), n. Same as wifehood . The deep, revolving, witty Bucking ham. Upon each shoulder sits a milk-white dove, And at her feet do witty serpents move. B. Jonson, The Barriers. 21. Exhibiting intelligence or ingenuity; clev- er; skilfully devised. Silence in love betrays more wo Than words, though ne'er so witty ; A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity. Raleigh, Silent Lover (Ellis's Specimens, II. 224). Ingrateful payer of my industries, That with a soft painted hypocrisy Cozen'st and jeer'st my perturbation, Expect a witty and a fell revenge! Beau . and Fl . , Knight of Malta, v. 1. in witty tor- Amongst the elder Christians, some ments excelled the cruelty of many of their persecutors, whose rage determined quickly in death. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 91. 3. Po e ed of wit; smartly or cleverly fa- cetious; ready with strikingly novel, clever, shrewd, and amusing sayings, or with sharp repartee; brilliant, sparkling, and original in expre ing amusing notions or ideas; hence, sometimes, sarcastic; satirical: of persons. Who so in earnest vveenes, he doth, in mine aduise, Shevv himselfe vvitle , or more vvittie than vvise. That girdle gave the vertue of chast love, And wivehood true, to all that did it beare. Spenser, F. Q., IV. v. 3. Same as wifele . wivele t (wiv'les), a. They, in their wivele state, run into open abomina- tions. Homilies , xviii. Of Matrimony. wivelyt (wiv'li), a . Same as wifely . Wyuely loue. J. Udall , On 1 Cor. vii. wivert (wi'ver), n. [ wyvere , wivre , givre , a viper, viper a , a viper: see viper . Hence wivern .] 1. A serpent. Jalousye, all as! that wikked wyvere , Thus cause les is cropen into yow. 2. A wivern. Chaucer , Troilus, iii. 1010.