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sapiential, a.|seɪpɪˈɛnʃəl|
Also 5 sapyencyall, 7 sapientiall.
[a. F. sapiential, or ad. eccl. L. sapientiāl-is, f. sapientia sapience.]
1. Belonging to or characterized by wisdom; esp. belonging to the wisdom of God (cf. sapience 1 b).
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) ii. 80 For your sapyencyall wyttes I gyf commendacion. 1656Hobbes Quest. Liberty, Necess. & Chance 212 Some distinctions are Scholastical onely, and some are Scholastical and sapiential also. 1663Baxter Div. Life 11 Man being made at first the Natural and Sapiential image of God. 1675― Cath. Theol. ii. i. 20 Under Gods sapiential Government of the World. a1680J. Corbet Free Actions ii. iii. (1683) 16 God..can do with it as he pleaseth, by a sapiential Government.
2. Epithet of the ‘wisdom’ books of the Bible (Proverbs, Ecclesiates, Canticles, Wisdom, Ecclesiasticus); also applied occas. to kindred writings outside the canon. [So in eccl.L. and Fr.] Also applied to similar writings in Old English.
1568Bible (Bishops') Introd. 8 b, The Bible..is of diuers natures, some legall, some historicall, some sapientiall, and some propheticall. 1673O. Walker Educ. i. vi. 50 Let him also frequently..read some part of the Scripture, and the Historical and Sapiental Books rather then the other. 1880W. Sanday in Expositor XI. 358 The Sapiential books in the Apocrypha. 1882Farrar Early Chr. I. 278 This Sapiential literature of Alexandria,..represented by the books of Ecclesiasticus and Wisdom and in the writings of Philo. 1970N. & Q. Dec. 445/1 Old English sapiential poetry has received a good deal of scholarly attention.
Hence sapiˈentially adv.
1846Worcester (cites Baxter.) |