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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[From

A witty saying; a sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; an attempt at wit; a conceit.

Milton.

He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and

witticisms

; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse.

Addison.

Noun.

[from wit.] A sentence or phrase which is affectedly witty; a low kind of wit.

--He is full of conceptions, points of epigram, and witticisms; all which are below the dignity of heroic verse.