单词 | sapiential |
释义 | sapientialadj. 1. Belonging to or characterized by wisdom; esp. belonging to the wisdom of God (cf. sapience n. 1b). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [adjective] > knowing or omniscient > characterized by wisdom sapiential1663 sophianic1936 c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) ii. 80 For your sapyencyall wyttes I gyf commendacion. 1656 T. Hobbes Quest. Liberty, Necess. & Chance 212 Some distinctions are Scholastical onely, and some are Scholastical and sapiential also. 1663 R. Baxter Divine Life 11 Man being made at first the Natural and Sapiential image of God. 1675 R. Baxter Catholick Theol. ii. i. 20 Under Gods sapiential Government of the World. a1680 J. Corbet Humble Endeavour (1683) ii. iii. 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 occasionally to kindred writings outside the canon. [So in ecclesiastical Latin and French.] Also applied to similar writings in Old English. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [adjective] > Wisdom sapiential1568 the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > [adjective] glewc725 wiselyc900 snoterc950 wiseOE keena1000 witterc1100 redewisec1225 redefulc1275 well-donec1275 witfulc1275 sage1297 redya1325 heartya1382 prudenta1382 hearteda1425 subtilea1450 sapient1471 Palladian1562 wittiful1590 judicious1591 cordate1651 sophical1739 sophica1773 sapientious1852 unbesotted1875 sapiential1882 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [adjective] > Wisdom > of similar writings in Old English sapiential1970 1568 Bible (Bishops') Introd. 8 b The Bible..is of diuers natures, some legall, some historicall, some sapientiall, and some propheticall. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. vi. 50 Let him also frequently..read some part of the Scripture, and the Historical and Sapiential Books rather then the other. 1880 W. Sanday in Expositor XI. 358 The Sapiential books in the Apocrypha. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity I. 278 This Sapiential literature of Alexandria,..represented by the books of Ecclesiasticus and Wisdom and in the writings of Philo. 1970 Notes & Queries Dec. 445/1 Old English sapiential poetry has received a good deal of scholarly attention. Derivatives sapiˈentially adv. ΚΠ 1846 J. E. Worcester Universal Dict. Eng. Lang. (citing Baxter). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.c1485 |
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