afterwitted
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]afterwitted (comparative more afterwitted, superlative most afterwitted)
- (dated) Characterized by afterwit; slow-witted.
- 1849, William Tyndale, edited by Henry Waler, Expositions and Notes on Sundry Portions of the Holy Scriptures, Together with the Practice of Prelates, Cambridge: The University Press, page 93:
- Our fashions of eating make us slothful, and unlusty to labour and study; unstable, inconstant, and light-mannered; full of wits, after-witted (as we call it), incircumspect, inconsiderate, heady, rash, and hasty to begin unadvisedly […].