sapiencen.

Brit.

/ˈseɪpɪəns/, U.S.

/ˈseɪpiəns/,

/ˈsæpiəns/

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s sapyence, Middle English, Scottish1500s, 1700s sapiens.

Etymology: < Old French sapience, < Latin sapientia , < sapient-em sapient adj. and n.: see -ence suffix.

a. Wisdom, understanding. (A learned synonym. Now rare in serious use: see sense 2.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [noun]

righteousnesseOE

snoterc950

witnessc950

wisdomOE

insightc1175

witc1175

smeighnessc1200

sleighta1300

witternessa1300

inwitc1305

wittiheadc1315

wisenessc1320

witterheda1325

wisehede1340

slyness1357

sapience1377

wisdomhood138.

prudencea1382

sapienta1400

sentencec1400

advice?a1439

sophyc1440

profunditya1500

wittiness1543

Minerva1601

depth1605

Sophia1649

visionariness1817

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 42 For what made Lucyfer to lese þe heigh heuene, Or salamon his sapience or sampson his strengthe?

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1626 Þat þou has in þy hert holy connyng, Of sapience þi sawle ful soþes to schawe.

1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 3854 But whan monhod is meynt with sapience, Who considereth, it may double avayle.

1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) ii. sig. A*.iv All the scyence and all the sapyence of men shall not excuse them.

c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 34 Appollo that the poietis callis the god of sapiens.

1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 99 It is a point of high Sapience in the Church of Rome to choose [etc.].

1659 Quæries Proposalls of Armie to Parl. 4 As that Supreme Master of Politicall Sapience doth assert.

1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. xv A king..Quhase pusiens, and sapiens, Sall richt restore and saiv.

1730 J. Swift Traulus I 4 Yet many a Wretch in Bedlam,..still has Gratitude and Sap'ence, To spare the Folks that gave him Ha'pence.

1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet II. 86 Silence is sapience.

1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 71 ‘Honour all men’ is one of the many texts of combined sanctity and sapience with which the New Testament abounds.

1901 F. W. Rolfe Chron. House Borgia 20 That letter..written..with the unerring sapience of a saint.

†b. as an attribute of God. Hence applied to the Word or second Person of the Trinity. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > knowledge or omniscience

sapiencec1386

omniscience1612

omnisciency1640

Sophia1649

all-knowingness1674

scientivity1677

omniscientness1727

c1386 G. Chaucer Prioress's Prol. 20 Of whos vertu, whan he thyn herte lighte, Conceyued was the fadres sapience.

c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 2 God..That al thinge made in sapience.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. vii. 247 The diuyne puissaunce and the sapience of almyghty god.

1536 Prymer Salysbery Use (STC 15992) f. lv He that is the greate profounde sapience And dyuyne trueth of the father on hye.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G4^v All learning is knowledge acquired, and all knowledge in God is originall. And therefore we must looke for it by another name, that of wisdome or sapience, as the scriptures call it.

1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins 100 Herein is the Immense Sapience and the Superlative Goodness of God to be admired.

†c. Spiritual wisdom, knowledge of divine things.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun] > wisdom

tastea1400

sapience1598

theosophy1837

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 9 God the ffulfylle withe intelligence, And withe a spyrut of goostly sapience.

1569 W. Wager Longer thou Liuest sig. F.iv As scripture calleth this the hiest sapience, God to know, to feare, to loue, and obey.]

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man vi. 578 Let vs now examine sapience..or that part of wisedome, which is conuersant in the contemplation of God, and diuine matters.

1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. ii. §2. 25 The eye of the soule, or receptacle of Sapience and diuine knowledge.

†d. sometimes contradistinguished from prudence (see quots.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > [noun] > what is true

knowledgea1398

science1574

common knowledge1578

sapience1606

truth1644

1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 252 This light of reason (as much as concerneth mens actions) is nothing else but Prudence,..euen as sapience or wisedome is the guide and gouernesse of speculation.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. v. 22 As, much Experience, is Prudence; so, is much Science, Sapience. For though wee usually have one name of Wisedome for them both; yet the Latines did alwayes distinguish between Prudentia and Sapientia; ascribing the former to Experience, the later to Science.

a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 156 Wisedom..may denote either sapience, a habit of knowing what is true; or prudence, a disposition of chusing what is good.

†e. Correct taste and judgement. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > [noun]

good tastea1400

sensea1616

epicurism1655

gusto1663

fancyc1665

sapience1667

taste1671

curiositya1684

niceness1698

gust1706

sensibility1735

connoissance1736

connoisseurship1749

tapinophoby1773

theoria1846

shibui1960

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1018 Eve, now I see thou art exact of taste, And elegant, of Sapience no small part, Since to each meaning savour we apply, And Palate call judicious.

1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 540 (Heneage Finch) A person of so eloquent and fluent speech, and of so great sapience, that he was usually stiled the English Roscius and the English Cicero.1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio III. 174 The sapience of Horace, that is, the correct judgment which reigns in all you think and write.

2. Used depreciatingly or ironically: Would-be wisdom.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [noun] > affected wisdom

sapiencec1374

wisdomness1668

c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 515 Loo þer goþe he þat is man of so grete sapience and held vs louers leest in reuerence.

1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 28 This is a piece of sapience not worth the brain of a fruit-trencher.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 188 Staring round with Owl-like eys: He put his face into a posture Of Sapience, and began to bluster.

1781 W. Cowper Charity 519 Just as the sapience of an author's brain Suggests it safe or dang'rous to be plain.

1893 Morley Speech at Manchester 8 Nov. Wisdom is the real article and sapience is the sham article.

†3. The apocryphal book of ‘Wisdom’. Obsolete.In Piers Plowman perhaps used as a general name for the ‘sapiental books’ of the Bible.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Apocrypha > [noun] > Wisdom

sapience1362

wisdom1875

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. viii. 47 So seiþ þe sauter and sapience boþe.

1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iii. 330 Se what Salamon seith in Sapience bokes.

14.. Wyclif's Bible, Wisd. (ad fin.) Here endith the book of Sapiens.

a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvii. sig. L.ii Of this arrow speaketh y^e wise man in the .v. Chapter of Sapience.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Rogation Wk. iii. 245 b Wherein is expressed further in Sapience howe God geueth his elect an vnderstandyng of the motions of the heauens.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sapience
释义	sapiencen. Brit. /ˈseɪpɪəns/, U.S. /ˈseɪpiəns/, /ˈsæpiəns/ Forms: Also Middle English–1500s sapyence, Middle English, Scottish1500s, 1700s sapiens. Etymology: < Old French sapience, < Latin sapientia , < sapient-em sapient adj. and n.: see -ence suffix. 1. a. Wisdom, understanding. (A learned synonym. Now rare in serious use: see sense 2.) ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [noun] righteousnesseOE snoterc950 witnessc950 wisdomOE insightc1175 witc1175 smeighnessc1200 sleighta1300 witternessa1300 inwitc1305 wittiheadc1315 wisenessc1320 witterheda1325 wisehede1340 slyness1357 sapience1377 wisdomhood138. prudencea1382 sapienta1400 sentencec1400 advice?a1439 sophyc1440 profunditya1500 wittiness1543 Minerva1601 depth1605 Sophia1649 visionariness1817 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xii. 42 For what made Lucyfer to lese þe heigh heuene, Or salamon his sapience or sampson his strengthe? c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1626 Þat þou has in þy hert holy connyng, Of sapience þi sawle ful soþes to schawe. 1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 3854 But whan monhod is meynt with sapience, Who considereth, it may double avayle. 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) ii. sig. A.iv All the scyence and all the sapyence of men shall not excuse them. c1550 Complaynt Scotl.* (1979) vi. 34 Appollo that the poietis callis the god of sapiens. 1603 S. Harsnett Declar. Popish Impostures 99 It is a point of high Sapience in the Church of Rome to choose [etc.]. 1659 Quæries Proposalls of Armie to Parl. 4 As that Supreme Master of Politicall Sapience doth assert. 1724 A. Ramsay Vision in Ever Green I. xv A king..Quhase pusiens, and sapiens, Sall richt restore and saiv. 1730 J. Swift Traulus I 4 Yet many a Wretch in Bedlam,..still has Gratitude and Sap'ence, To spare the Folks that gave him Ha'pence. 1836 H. Smith Tin Trumpet II. 86 Silence is sapience. 1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 71 ‘Honour all men’ is one of the many texts of combined sanctity and sapience with which the New Testament abounds. 1901 F. W. Rolfe Chron. House Borgia 20 That letter..written..with the unerring sapience of a saint. †b. as an attribute of God. Hence applied to the Word or second Person of the Trinity. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > knowledge or omniscience sapiencec1386 omniscience1612 omnisciency1640 Sophia1649 all-knowingness1674 scientivity1677 omniscientness1727 c1386 G. Chaucer Prioress's Prol. 20 Of whos vertu, whan he thyn herte lighte, Conceyued was the fadres sapience. c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 2 God..That al thinge made in sapience. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes iv. vii. 247 The diuyne puissaunce and the sapience of almyghty god. 1536 Prymer Salysbery Use (STC 15992) f. lv He that is the greate profounde sapience And dyuyne trueth of the father on hye. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. G4^v All learning is knowledge acquired, and all knowledge in God is originall. And therefore we must looke for it by another name, that of wisdome or sapience, as the scriptures call it. View more context for this quotation 1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins 100 Herein is the Immense Sapience and the Superlative Goodness of God to be admired. †c. Spiritual wisdom, knowledge of divine things. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > [noun] > wisdom tastea1400 sapience1598 theosophy1837 c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (Percy Soc.) 9 God the ffulfylle withe intelligence, And withe a spyrut of goostly sapience. 1569 W. Wager Longer thou Liuest sig. F.iv As scripture calleth this the hiest sapience, God to know, to feare, to loue, and obey.] 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man vi. 578 Let vs now examine sapience..or that part of wisedome, which is conuersant in the contemplation of God, and diuine matters. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. ii. §2. 25 The eye of the soule, or receptacle of Sapience and diuine knowledge. †d. sometimes contradistinguished from prudence (see quots.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > [noun] > what is true knowledgea1398 science1574 common knowledge1578 sapience1606 truth1644 1606 L. Bryskett Disc. Ciuill Life 252 This light of reason (as much as concerneth mens actions) is nothing else but Prudence,..euen as sapience or wisedome is the guide and gouernesse of speculation. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. v. 22 As, much Experience, is Prudence; so, is much Science, Sapience. For though wee usually have one name of Wisedome for them both; yet the Latines did alwayes distinguish between Prudentia and Sapientia; ascribing the former to Experience, the later to Science. a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1686) III. 156 Wisedom..may denote either sapience, a habit of knowing what is true; or prudence, a disposition of chusing what is good. †e. Correct taste and judgement. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > [noun] good tastea1400 sensea1616 epicurism1655 gusto1663 fancyc1665 sapience1667 taste1671 curiositya1684 niceness1698 gust1706 sensibility1735 connoissance1736 connoisseurship1749 tapinophoby1773 theoria1846 shibui1960 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1018 Eve, now I see thou art exact of taste, And elegant, of Sapience no small part, Since to each meaning savour we apply, And Palate call judicious. View more context for this quotation 1692 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 540 (Heneage Finch) A person of so eloquent and fluent speech, and of so great sapience, that he was usually stiled the English Roscius and the English Cicero.1796 C. Burney Mem. Life Metastasio III. 174 The sapience of Horace, that is, the correct judgment which reigns in all you think and write. 2. Used depreciatingly or ironically: Would-be wisdom. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > pretender to wisdom, wiseacre > [noun] > affected wisdom sapiencec1374 wisdomness1668 c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde i. 515 Loo þer goþe he þat is man of so grete sapience and held vs louers leest in reuerence. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 28 This is a piece of sapience not worth the brain of a fruit-trencher. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 188 Staring round with Owl-like eys: He put his face into a posture Of Sapience, and began to bluster. 1781 W. Cowper Charity 519 Just as the sapience of an author's brain Suggests it safe or dang'rous to be plain. 1893 Morley Speech at Manchester 8 Nov. Wisdom is the real article and sapience is the sham article. †3. The apocryphal book of ‘Wisdom’. Obsolete.In Piers Plowman perhaps used as a general name for the ‘sapiental books’ of the Bible. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Apocrypha > [noun] > Wisdom sapience1362 wisdom1875 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. viii. 47 So seiþ þe sauter and sapience boþe. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. iii. 330 Se what Salamon seith in Sapience bokes. 14.. Wyclif's Bible, Wisd. (ad fin.) Here endith the book of Sapiens. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) ii. xvii. sig. L.ii Of this arrow speaketh y^e wise man in the .v. Chapter of Sapience. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Rogation Wk. iii. 245 b Wherein is expressed further in Sapience howe God geueth his elect an vnderstandyng of the motions of the heauens. 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