Definition of "ait" []

• Chiefly British A small island. (noun)

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• "With them, though the term aitía was employed, and even occasionally in several of the senses in which Aristotle later distinguished it, the commoner term was arché, with which the former was apparently generally interchangeable."
• "Chacun voudrait que son voisin ait un peu de conscience, mais personne n'en veut pour soi-même."
• ""Ex his enim," ait, "quae concessa sunt, euenit eorum quidem qui uel sunt uel in possessione uel in prouectu uel in adeptione uirtutis, omnem quaecumque sit bonam, in improbitate uero manentibus omnem pessimam esse fortunam.""