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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Wisverb

    pret. and part. pass. wist. To know. Obsolete.

    Etymology: wissen, German; wysen, Dutch.

    Thus proud and fierce, unto the hearts he stept
    Of them poor souls; and cutting reason’s reins,
    Made them his own before they had it wist. Philip Sidney.

    There be fools alive, I wis,
    Silver’d o’er; and so was this. William Shakespeare.

    This book, advisedly read and diligently followed but one year at home, would do a young gentleman more good, I wiss, than three years travel abroad. Roger Ascham, Schoolmaster.

    When Mammon saw his purpose mist,
    Him to entrap unwares, another’s way he wist. Fa. Queen.

    Marry with a king,
    A batchelor, a handsome strippling too,
    I wis your grandam had a worser match. William Shakespeare, R. III.

    When for more worlds the Macedonian cry’d,
    He wist not Thetys in her lap did hide
    Another yet, a world reserv’d for you,
    To make more great than that he did subdue. Edmund Waller.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Wisadverb

    certainly; really; indeed

  2. Wisverb

    to think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis

  3. Etymology: [Due to mistaking OE. iwis certain, AS. gewiss, for I wis. See Ywis.]

Wikidata

  1. WIS

    WIS, channel 10, is the NBC-affiliated television station in Columbia, South Carolina. Owned by Raycom Media, WIS has studios on Bull Street in downtown Columbia, and transmitter located in Lugoff, South Carolina.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Wis

    wis, v. (in the form I wis) erroneously used as 'I know.' [I wis is the M. E. adv. i-wis—A.S. ge-wis, certainly; cf. Ger. ge-wiss.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of wis in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of wis in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of wis in a Sentence

  1. Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker:

    I think the real reason he’s ahead [in Wis. polls] is because, like I said, voters are informed.

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