Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Twit

Twit , transitive verb

[Old English atwiten, Anglo-Saxon atwītan to reproach, blame; aet at + wītan to reproach, blame; originally, to observe, see, hence, to observe what is wrong (compare the meanings of English animadvert; akin to German verweisen to censure, Old High German firwīzan, Gothic fraweitan to avenge, Latin videre to see. See Vision, Wit.]

To vex by bringing to notice, or reminding of, a fault, defect, misfortune, or the like; to revile; to reproach; to upbraid; to taunt; as, he twitted his friend of falsehood.
This these scoffers twitted the Christians with. — Tillotson
Aesop minds men of their errors, without twitting them for what is amiss. — L'Estrange