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úþ-wita

  • noun [ masculine ]
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Grammar
úþ-wita, -weota, an; m.
A person distinguished for wisdom or learning in general or in a special branch, a philosopher, scribe, geo- metrician, etc.
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  • Se gomola, eald úðwita (cf. fród fæder módsnottor 300,

      4; Fä. 1), Exon. Th. 304, 6; Fä. 66.
  • Uðweota

    a councillor, senator,

      Andr. Kmbl. 2211; An. 1107.
  • Úðuuta

    philosophus,

      Wrt. Voc. ii. 117, 24.
  • Cato wæs openlíce úþwita,

      Bt. 19; Fox 70, 8: Met. 10, 50.
  • Epicurus se úþwita,

      Bt. 24, 3; Fox 84, 21, Úre úþwita Plato, 33, 3; Fox 126, 35: 35, 1; Fox 156, 9: Met. 22, 54.
  • Úðwita

    sophista,

      Ælfc. Gr. 7; Zup. 24, 8.
  • Gleáwum úðwitum and getincgum gymosophistis et rhetoribus, úðwita

    gymnosophista,

      Hpt. Gl. 479, 6-9.
  • Án swíþe wís mon ongan fandigan ánes úþwitan and hine bismerode, for ðam hé hine swá orgellíce up áhóf and bodode ðæs ðe hé úðwita (

    philosophus

    ) wǽre; ne cýððe hé hit mid nánum cræftum ... Ðá wolde se wísa mon his fandigan, hwæðer hé swá wís wǽre swá hé self wénde ðæt hé wǽre,
      Bt. 18, 4; Fox 66, 27-33.
  • Án úðuutta

    unus scriba,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 8, 19.
  • Úðwitan

    sophistae,

      Hpt. Gl. 449, 46.
  • Ðá clypode se apostol ðone úðwitan Graton,

      Homl. Th. i. 60, 31.
  • Ðæs ðe ús secgaþ béc, ealde úðwitan (historians), Chr. 937; Er1.115, 18:

    astronomers,

      Menol. Fox 329; Men. 166.
  • Úþwitan (

    philosophers

    ) secgaþ ðæt sió sáwul hæbbe ðrió gecynd,
      Bt. 33, 4; Fox 132, 3; Met, 20, 184: Homl. Skt. i. 1, 96.
  • Úðweotan (

    the Jewish scribes and elders

    ),
      Elen. Kmbl. 943; El. 473.
  • Úðwuta

    scribae,

      Mt. Kmbl. Lind. 15, 1.
  • Úðuta (-wutu,

      Rush.), Mk. Skt. Lind. 1, 22.
  • Úðwutto (-wuta,

      Rush.), Lk. Skt. Lind. 22, 66.
  • Swá swá úþwitena gewuna is

    ut geometrae solent,

      Bt. 34, 4; Fox 138, 28.
  • Sume of úðuutum (-wutum, Rush.)

    quidam de scribis,

      Mk. Skt. Lind. 7, 1.
  • Wǽ iúh uuðutum,

      Mt. Kmbl, Lind. 23, 29.
  • Ic sende tó iúh wítgo and snotre menu and úðuto (

    scribas

    ),
      23, 34.
  • Úðwiotan his

    seniores suos,

      Ps. Surt. 104, 22: 118, 100.
Etymology
[Magy wærenn uþwitess swíþe wise, Orm. 7083.]
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  • úþ-wita, n.