wise man
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- A man who is wise.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 3, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- That is the reason, why some say, that the wiseman liveth as long as he ought, and not so long as he can.
- 1635, John Donne, The Triple Foole:
- But where's that wiseman, that would not be I, / If she would not deny?
- 2005 December 14, “A wise man in Washington”, in The Economist:
- Mr Lieberman is arguably the last surviving example of a peculiar Washington species: the Wise Man who is willing to put party allegiance aside when it comes to big issues such as foreign policy.
- A man who is a sage or seer.
- 1989, Elias Lönnrot, translated by Keith Bosley, The Kalevala, section III:
- Steady old Väinämöinen / the everlasting wise man [translating tietäjä] / was driving along his roads / pacing out his ways / in those glades of Väinö-land / on the Kalevala heaths.
- A magus or wizard, now especially one of the three biblical magi.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 174:
- Some of the other charms employed by the wise men had a more tangled pedigree.
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wise man
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man who is a sage or seer
magus