wise man

Definitions

1. A man who is wise.
2. A man who is a sage or seer.
3. A magus or wizard, now especially one of the three biblical magi.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

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