"isit" meaning in English

See isit in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Interjection

  1. (South Africa or obsolete) Alternative form of is it. Tags: South-Africa, alt-of, alternative, obsolete Alternative form of: is it
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          "ref": "1616, Thomas Brightman, The Reuelation of St Iohn, page 680:",
          "text": "But if any proper burning of the Sunne should be vnderstood, how isit', that it afflicteth the wicked more thế the good, whereas both of them dwell mingled together vppon the earth and the one of them is not more defenced frố the force of the heauenly bodies, then the other.",
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