Sapientize

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make sapient. rare, transitive

    "c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor Truly evangelical way of solemnizing a party measure, and sapientizing Calvin's 'tolerabiles ineptias' by making them 'ineptias usque ad carcerem et verbera intolerantes!'"

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"c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor Truly evangelical way of solemnizing a party measure, and sapientizing Calvin's 'tolerabiles ineptias' by making them 'ineptias usque ad carcerem et verbera intolerantes!'"

Etymology

From sapient + -ize.

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