witticism (witisizm)

[ You have quite undone the young King with your Wit ticisms, and ruin'd his Fortunes utterly. Milton, Ans. to Salmasius, iii. The witty poets... have taken an advantage from the doubtful meaning of the word fire to make an infinite num Add is on , Spectator, No. 62. ber of witticisms . Every witticism is an inexact thought; what is perfectly true is imperfectly witty. Landor, Imag. Conv., Diogenes and Plato. wittifiedt (wit'i-fid), a. [ wittify ( witty + -fy) +-ed2.] Having wit; clever; witty. Diverse of these were dispersed to those wittified ladies who were willing to come into the order. Roger North, Lord Guilford, I. 59. ( Davies .) wittily (wit'i-li), adv . [ Time only & custom haue author i tie to do, specially in all cases of language, as the Poet hath wittily remembred. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 104. The wittily and strangely cruel Macro. B. Jonson, Sejanus, v. 10. (b) With a witty turn or phrase, or with an ingenious and amusing a ociation of ideas; clearly; brilliantly. In conversation wittily pleasant. Sir P. Sidney. It would a little cool the preternatural heat of the fling brand fraternity, as one wittily calleth them. Rev. T. Adams , Works, I. 125. wittine (wit'i-nes), n. 1. The character of being witty; the quality of being ingenious or clever. Wittine e in devising,. . pith in e e in uttering. E. K. , To G. Harvey (Prefixed to Spenser's Shep. Cal.). 2t. Something that is witty; an ingenious invention. The third, in the discoloured mantle spangled all over, is Euphantaste, a well-conceited wittine e , and employed in honouring the court with the riches of her pure invention. B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, v. 3. wittingt (witʼing), n. [Also weeting (and erroneously wotting ); ; verbal n. of witl , v.] Knowledge; perception. IMG:content-2495.png:[blocks in formation] wittingly (wit'ing-li), adv. [Formerly also weetingly; To which she for his sake had weetingly now brought her selfe, and blam'd her noble blood. Spenser, F. Q., VI. 3. 11. 6957 I would not wittingly dishonor my work by a single falsehood, misrepresentation, or prejudice, though it should gain our forefathers the whole country of New England. Irving , Knickerbocker, p. 201.