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wit

Ancestral Lore of wit

Old English wit, witt, more commonly gewit "understanding, intellect, sense; knowledge, consciousness, conscience"

from PIE root *weid- "to see," metaphorically "to know"

wit verb / wɪt /

wit noun / wɪt /

astuteness of perception or judgment
a person of superior intellect; thinker
an imaginatively perceptive and articulate individual especially skilled in banter or persiflage
reasoning power, intelligence, mind, memory
sense, mental soundness, sanity, mental capability and resourcefulness
the ability to relate seemingly disparate things so as to illuminate or amuse

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~☉~	lucid definition; added layer of lucidity, or aethereal context
⚜	classic definition
☣	artificium definition; usually words which have undergone a warped evolution, or a complete perversion of the original sense