Definition of "witted" []

• Having wit or intellectual comprehension. Often used in combination: keen-witted; dull-witted. (adjective)

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• "A third is the application of learning according unto the propriety of the wits; for there is no defect in the faculties intellectual, but seemeth to have a proper cure contained in some studies: as, for example, if a child be bird-witted, that is, hath not the faculty of attention, the mathematics giveth a remedy thereunto; for in them, if the wit be caught away but a moment, one is new to begin."
• "Englishmen think him half-witted, which is exactly what he intends them to think."
• "Sagal, Carl Kassell, Decatur's own Roy Blount Jr, Amy Dickinson, and Charlie Pierce were as quick witted and entertaining as any regular listener would expect."