Defn: The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.
Cowper.
Woman, if I might sit beside your feet, And glean your scattered
sapience. Tennyson.
SAPIENT Sa"pi*ent, a. Etym: [L. sapiens, -entis, p.pr. of sapere to taste to have sense, to know. See Sage, a.]
Defn: Wise; sage; discerning; — often in irony or contempt.
Where the sapient king Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse.
Milton.
Syn.
— Sage; sagacious; knowing; wise; discerning.
SAPIENTIAL
Sa`pi*en"tial, a. Etym: [L. sapientialis.]
Defn: Having or affording wisdom.
— Sa`pi*en"tial*ly, adv.
The sapiential books of the Old [Testament]. Jer. Taylor.
SAPIENTIOUS
Sa`pi*en"tious, a.
Defn: Sapiential. [Obs.]
SAPIENTIZE
Sa"pi*ent*ize, v. t.
Defn: To make sapient. [R.] Coleridge.