jot
verb
- make a short notation
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
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Pronunciation: /d͡ʒɒt/ / [d͡ʒɔʔ] / /d͡ʒɑt/
noun
Etymology: The verb is possibly onomatopoeic, suggesting a jerking motion. The noun is derived from the verb.
- A jerk, a jolt.
“[F]requent jot / Of his hard ſetting jade did ſo confound / The vvords that he by papyr-ſtealth had got, / That their loſt ſenſe the youngſter could not ſound, / Though he vvith mimical attention did abound.”
“[…] I ſay it is no uneven jot, to paſſe from the more faint and obſcure examples of Spermaticall life, to the more conſiderable effects of generall Motion in Mineralls, Metalls & ſundry Meteors, […]”
verb
Etymology: The verb is possibly onomatopoeic, suggesting a jerking motion. The noun is derived from the verb.
- To jerk or jolt (something); to jog.
“Nowe is iuſte iuſtice, ſo iotted out of iointe, / That ye here vniuſtely, ſtande at deniall, / To do me iuſtice, and wolde by power ryall: / Directe mine acquitall or condemnacion, / Euen as wyll in both: weith your acceptacion.”