sapientialadj.
/seɪpɪˈɛnʃəl/ 1. Belonging to or characterized by wisdom; esp. belonging to the wisdom of God (cf. sapience n. 1b).
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the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > knowing or omniscient > characterized by wisdom
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sophianic1936
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) ii. 80 For your sapyencyall wyttes I gyf commendacion.
1656 T. Hobbes Quest. Liberty, Necess. & Chance 212 Some distinctions are Scholastical onely, and some are Scholastical and sapiential also.
1663 R. Baxter Divine Life 11 Man being made at first the Natural and Sapiential image of God.
1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. i. 20 Under Gods sapiential Government of the World.
a1680 J. Corbet Humble Endeavour (1683) ii. iii. 16 God..can do with it as he pleaseth, by a sapiential Government.
2. Epithet of the ‘wisdom’ books of the Bible (Proverbs, Ecclesiates, Canticles, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus); also applied occasionally to kindred writings outside the canon. [So in ecclesiastical Latin and French.] Also applied to similar writings in Old English.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [adjective] > Wisdom
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [adjective]
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wiselyc900
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witterc1100
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redefulc1275
well-donec1275
witfulc1275
sage1297
redya1325
heartya1382
prudenta1382
hearteda1425
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sapient1471
Palladian1562
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sophical1739
sophica1773
sapientious1852
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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [adjective] > Wisdom > of similar writings in Old English
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1568 Bible (Bishops') Introd. 8 b The Bible..is of diuers natures, some legall, some historicall, some sapientiall, and some propheticall.
1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. vi. 50 Let him also frequently..read some part of the Scripture, and the Historical and Sapiential Books rather then the other.
1880 W. Sanday in Expositor XI. 358 The Sapiential books in the Apocrypha.
1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 278 This Sapiential literature of Alexandria,..represented by the books of Ecclesiasticus and Wisdom and in the writings of Philo.
1970 Notes & Queries Dec. 445/1 Old English sapiential poetry has received a good deal of scholarly attention.
Derivatives
sapiˈentially adv.
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1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Baxter).
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