v. Obs. Also 1 edwítan, 3 eadwiten. [OE. edwítan str. vb.:—OTeut. *edo-, eduwîtan, not represented exc. in Eng.; the OHG. itawîȥian (MHG. itewîȥen), Goth. idweitjan wk. vbs., are f. the derived sb. *edowîto(m EDWIT), f. edo-, edu-, ED- + wítan (OE. wítan) to impute, blame. Cf. ATWIT.]
1. trans. To taunt, blame, reproach.
c. 825. Vesp. Psalter lxviii[ix]. 10. Edwit edwitendra ðe ʓefeollun ofer mee.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 212. & ȝif þer is out to eadwiten.
a. 1300. Commandm., in E. E. P. (1862), 16. Þat we ssold edwite is worþi wound.
1388. Wyclif, Ecclus. xx. 15. He schal edwite many thingis.
c. 1430. Hymns Virg. (1867), 70. To Conscience þei adwiten me.
2. To make (a thing) a subject of reproach to a person. Const. dat. or to. (Sometimes with obj. sentence instead of acc.)
c. 1230. Hali Meid., 37. We ne edwiten nawt wiues hare weanen.
a. 1240. Sawles Warde, in Cott. Hom., 253. Ha wið hokeres edwiteð ant up breideð euch an his sunnen.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. V. 368. His [wif] gan edwite hym þo How wikkedlich he lyued.
1388. Wyclif, Wisd. ii. 12. He vpbreidith [C. edwiteth] to vs the synnes of lawe.
c. 1430. Stans Puer, 28, in Babees Bk. (1868), 29. Be not to hasti upon breed to bite Lest men þerof Do þee edwite.
Hence Edwiting vbl. sb., the action of reproaching or rebuking: a rebuke, reproach.
1388. Wyclif, Wisd. v. 3. These … we hadden … into licnesse of vpbreidyng [C. eher edwiting]. Ibid., Ecclus. xviii. 18, marg. The resseyuere … aschamed of edwitingis doon to him.
