overwit

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ wit.

Verb

overwit (third-person singular simple present overwits, present participle overwitting, simple past and past participle overwitted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To outwit.
   • c. 1728, Jonathan Swift, The Answer to Paulus, an Epigram:

     He knows no guilt, who knows no sin.
     ⁠Yet well they merit to be pitied,
     By clients always overwitted.

References

• “overwit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.