overwit

English

Etymology

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.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “overwit”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)