a. [UNDER-1 10 a.] Of inferior or defective understanding: half-witted.
1683. Kennett, Erasm. on Folly, 13. Cupid … is an underwitted whipster. Ibid., 125. The Athenian Commander … was a little underwitted.
1856. Hawthorne, Eng. Note-bks. (1870), I. 424. I rather think it [sc. a child] was under-witted, and could not talk.
