TO WIT

 Dictionary entry overview: What does to wit mean? 

• TO WIT (adverb)
  The adverb TO WIT has 1 sense:

1. as follows

  Familiarity information: TO WIT used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TO WIT (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As follows

Synonyms:

namely; that is to say; to wit; videlicet; viz.

 Context examples 

Laurie bit his lips, and turning a little from the pensive speaker, read the following document, with praiseworthy gravity, considering the spelling: I, Amy Curtis March, being in my sane mind, go give and bequeethe all my earthly property—viz. to wit:—namely

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

To wit, in manner following, that is to say: Again, Mr. Micawber had a relish in this formal piling up of words, which, however ludicrously displayed in his case, was, I must say, not at all peculiar to him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The charges against the said brother John are the following, namely, to wit: First, that on the above-mentioned Feast of the Assumption, small beer having been served to the novices in the proportion of one quart to each four, the said brother John did drain the pot at one draught to the detriment of brother Paul, brother Porphyry and brother Ambrose, who could scarce eat their none-meat of salted stock-fish on account of their exceeding dryness.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)