Obs. (cf. next). Forms: 3–4 witere, 4–5 wyter(e, wytter, 5 wyttyr(e, witter. [f. WITTER a.1 or 2: cf. ON. vitra to reveal.] trans. To inform, instruct; in some early quots. perh. to make clear (to a person what to do).
c. 1205. Lay., 1200. Heȝe Diana … wise me & witere [c. 1275 witte me] … whuder ich mæi liðan.
a. 1225. Juliana, 33 (Bodl.). Wite me & were & witere & wisse þurh þi wisdom to wite me wið sunne.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 1552. To wayte þe wryt þat hit wolde & wyter hym to say. Ibid., 1587. When ho was wytered bi wyȝes what was þe cause.
a. 1375. Joseph Arim., 466. Ho has witered hire of þis?
a. 1400[?]. Morte Arth., 1239. I witter þe þe emperour es entirde in-to Fraunce.
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VI. 2284 (Wemyss). Þai thocht … for to cum in prevate One him or he suld witterit [Cott. MS. wyttride] be.
