| 释义 |
wiseling Now rare.|ˈwaɪzlɪŋ|
[f. wise a. + -ling1 2.]
A pretender to wisdom; a wiseacre.
1633J. Done Hist. Septuagint 214 These wiselings, that shew themselues fooles in so speaking, and discoursing with⁓out Discourse. 1649J. Ellistone tr. Behmen's Epist. (1886) 3 Those Luciferian wiselings that thought none could teach them anything. 1765Law Behmen's Myst. Magnum xxxix. 222 Let Master Sophister or Wiseling of Babel look us right in the Face. 1914Nellen & Craig tr. Ozanam's Francisc. Poets Italy v. 245 He praises the wisdom which shrinks from the wiselings. |