a. Wise when too late; wanting forethought.
c. 1536. Tindale, Exp. Matt. vi. (L). Our fashions of eating make us slothful … afterwitted (as we call it), uncircumspect, inconsiderate, heady, rash.
1656. Trapp, Exp. Matt. xxv. 2 (1868), 253/1. The most imprudent, improvident, after-witted.
