| 单词 | wisers |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswisers d. The comparative wiser as noun (with plural wisers): One who is wiser; usually with possessive, (one's) superior in wisdom. Now rare.Cf. better n.1 2, elder adj. 2, greater n. a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > wise man, sage > [noun] > superior wisera1300 a1300 Cursor Mundi 26180 Ga til a wijser to sceu þi wond. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hypermnestra. 2634 And werke aftyr thyn wisere euere mo. 1447 O. Bokenham Lyvys Seyntys v. 292 And of þi wysers lern bettyr gouernaunce. c1508 Want of Wyse Men (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems R. Henryson (1908) III. 170 For warldly wyn sik walkis, quhen wysar wynkis. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian i, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 36 Since it is well known these Dalilahs seduce my wisers and my betters. 1838 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (ed. 2) 1st Ser. 114 All writers who feel an itching..to be carping at their wisers and betters. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. xiii. 285 If thou really art my Senior, Seigneur, my Elder,..if thou art in very deed my Wiser. < as lemmas |
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