单词 | the sage |
释义 | > as lemmasthe sage a. Of a person: Wise, discreet, judicious. In Middle English often the sage (following a proper name). In modern use in narrowed applications: Practically wise, rendered prudent or judicious by experience. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [adjective] glewc725 wiselyc900 snoterc950 wiseOE keena1000 witterc1100 redewisec1225 redefulc1275 well-donec1275 witfulc1275 sage1297 redya1325 heartya1382 prudenta1382 hearteda1425 subtilea1450 sapient1471 Palladian1562 wittiful1590 judicious1591 cordate1651 sophical1739 sophica1773 sapientious1852 unbesotted1875 sapiential1882 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 4069 Nou it worþ iended þat Sibile þe sage sede biuore. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. xi. 257 For salamon þe sage þat sapience made. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 383 This..Is that Sibille of whom ye wite, That alle men yit clepen sage. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 1576 As þe sage sathrapas þat sorsory couþe. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos liii. 148 Retourne agayn towarde eneas and make peas wyth hym yf ye be sage. a1500 (a1475) G. Ashby Dicta Philosophorum l. 1222 in Poems (1899) 98 To speke litil, is knowen a man sage. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lxxxvi. 274 There is no clerke lyuynge so sage that can put it in wrytynge. 1545 R. Ascham Toxophilus i. f. 13 The best learned and sagest men in this Realme..both loue shoting and vse shoting. 1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 5 Ȝour wyse, saige, and grave familiar servands. 1571 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xxvii. 11 Bott schaw thyselff both scharpe, sauge [v.r. saig], and sinceir. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 217 Coosin of Buckingham, and you sage graue men Since you will [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 249 All you sage counsailers, hence. View more context for this quotation a1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 481 The Chancellor, and Treasurer, taking to them the Iustices, and other such sage persons, as they thinke fit. a1687 E. Waller Maid's Tragedy Alter'd v, in Wks. (1729) 348 Can you expect, that she should be so sage To rule her blood, and you not rule your rage? 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. v. xxxv. 344 The wise reasoning of a certain sage Magistrate. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxvii. 14 For most men (till by losing rendered sager) Will back their own opinions by a wager. 1818 Ld. Byron Beppo xxxiv. 18 No wonder such accomplishments should turn A female head, however sage and steady. 1833 H. Martineau Three Ages ii. 70 These housekeepers, made sage by circumstance, looked and spoke with something very little like mirth. 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral xiii. 346 But sager Juxon..withdrew from the proud but perilous office. a1872 F. D. Maurice Friendship Bks. (1874) i. 12 If I thought of him [sc. Bacon], even as the sagest of book-makers and not as a human being. < as lemmas |
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