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century). Thus "five wits" and "five senses" could describe both groups of wits/senses, the inward and the outward, although the common distinction, where...

The University Wits is a phrase used to name a group of late 16th-century English playwrights and pamphleteers who were educated at the universities (Oxford...

Christianity is a part of the common law. The proof of the contrary, which you have adduced, is incontrovertible; to wit, that the common law existed while the...

Woe from Wit (Russian: Го́ре от ума́, romanized: Gore ot uma, also translated as "The Woes of Wit", "Wit Works Woe", Wit's End, and so forth) is Alexander...

N.W.A (an abbreviation for Niggaz Wit Attitudes, eye dialect for Niggas With Attitudes) was an American hip hop group formed in Compton, California. They...

The common starling (Sturnus vulgaris), also known as the European starling in North America and simply as the starling in Great Britain and Ireland, is...

and Rowley's Wit at Several Weapons. The common story involved two male relatives, an older and a younger. The older fancies himself a "wit;" he controls...

Judge of the Rotterdam District Court and the Common Court of Justice of the Netherlands Antilles and Aruba. Wit was born on 24 December 1952 in Haarlemmermeer...

bounds of wit) fools, if they be not fools. — Philip Sidney, from Astrophel and Stella (Seventh Song) Another common adaptation of the common metre is...

De Wit or de Wit is a surname of Dutch origin meaning "the white (one)", thought to be generally a reference to blond hair. In 2007, 24,904 people had...

The inward are memory, estimation, imagination, phantasy, and common wit (or common sense). "There is no need to write a separate section on the Vegetable...

loud, shrill "pee-wit" from which they get their other name of peewit. Displaying males usually make a wheezy "pee-wit, wit wit, eeze wit" during their display...

style originating in Germany. Witbier (literally, "white beer") or simply Wit: Dutch-language name for the Belgian style of wheat beer Bière blanche (literally...

the most common surnames in some of the countries of Europe, in alphabetical order of the country. At the moment, listings for the most common names are...

Cryptocoryne decus-silvae de Wit - Johor Cryptocoryne dewitii N.Jacobsen - Papua New Guinea Cryptocoryne purpurea nothovar. edithiae de Wit - South Kalimantan Cryptocoryne...

standardized to five wits, which complemented the more well-known five "external" senses. Under this medieval scheme the common sense was understood to...

Connie gets a date with the coach. Meanwhile, Georgie, bored out of his wits by Peg and Connie's lamentations, pays a visit to Veronica with a "Get Well...

women or I am unlike her other loves. In the early 18th century, a theory of wit developed by English writers (particularly John Locke) held that judgement...

sometimes humorous displays of romantic interest, pick-up lines advertise the wit of their speakers to their target listeners. Pick-up lines range from straightforward...