| 释义 |
sapiently, adv.|ˈseɪpɪəntlɪ|
[-ly2.]
In a sapient manner, wisely, Now usually ironically = with apparent or would-be wisdom.
1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 77 Plato wrote full sapiently. 1816Kirby & Sp. Entomol. (1818) II. xxiv. 382 From whence he very sapiently concludes, that not the tail but the mouth must be their organ of sound. 1872W. R. Greg Enigmas Life 112 No government and no statesman has ever yet dared thus to supplement the inadequacy of personal patriotism by laws so sapiently despotic. 1882Mrs. J. H. Riddell Pr. Wales' Garden-Party 189 ‘Still property is property,’ remarked Mrs. Briart, sapiently. |