wise man

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A man who is wise.

   • That is the reason, why some say, that the wiseman liveth as long as he ought, and not so long as he can.
   • But where's that wiseman, that would not be I, / If she would not deny?
   • 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.
2. 2

   A man who is a sage or seer.

   • 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.
3. 3

   A magus or wizard, now especially one of the three biblical magi.

   • Some of the other charms employed by the wise men had a more tangled pedigree.

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