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sage

1[seyj] noun, adjective, sag·er, sag·est.
noun
1.
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
2.
someone venerated for the possession of wisdom, judgment, and experience.
adjective
3.
wise, judicious, or prudent: sage advice.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.

Origin:
1250–1300; Middle English (noun and adj.) < Old French < Late Latin sapidus wise, tasteful (Latin: tasty), equivalent to sap(ere) to know, be wise, orig. to taste (see sapient) + -idus -id4

sage·ly, adverb
sage·ness, noun


1. philosopher. 3. sagacious.


1. fool.

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sage1 (seɪdʒ)
 
n
1.  a man revered for his profound wisdom
 
adj
2.  profoundly wise or prudent
3.  obsolete solemn
 
[C13: from Old French, from Latin sapere to be sensible; see sapient]
 
'sagely1
 
adv
 
'sageness1
 
n

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sage
"wise," c.1300, from O.Fr. sage (11c.), from Gallo-Romance *sabius, from V.L. *sapius, from L. sapere "have a taste, have good taste, be wise," from PIE base *sap- "to taste." The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from c.1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages -- Thales, Solon, Periander,
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