sophicadj.
/ˈsɒfɪk/ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > alchemy > alchemical processes > [adjective] > miscellaneous other processes
spiritualizatea1500
sophic1709
1709 True Light of Alchemy (heading) The Method and Materials..composing the Sophick Mercury and Transmuting Elixir.
2. Conveying, or full of, wisdom; learned.
ΘΚΠ
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
a1773 J. Cunningham On Death George II xxiv, in Poems (1810) 461 He'll drop the sword, or shut the sophic page And pensive pay the tributary tear.
3. Relating to knowledge or speculation.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > [adjective]
speculablec1449
speculativea1483
sophical1601
theoretic1656
thinkative1662
sophic1900
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > relating to learning
yleredc897
scientialc1454
cunning?1520
scholarlike1547
Palladian1562
lettered1567
sophical1601
literary1605
learned1613
gnostic1656
mathetic1815
sophic1900
1900 J. W. Powell in 19th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1897–8 p. xlv The sophic activities so highly developed among the tribes of the arid pueblo region.
Derivatives
ˈsophical adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > belief > speculation > [adjective]
speculablec1449
speculativea1483
sophical1601
theoretic1656
thinkative1662
sophic1900
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > relating to learning
yleredc897
scientialc1454
cunning?1520
scholarlike1547
Palladian1562
lettered1567
sophical1601
literary1605
learned1613
gnostic1656
mathetic1815
sophic1900
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
1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. iii. 66 It is most certaine, that that which..is in those [regions] aboue, is seene also in this [world] of farre woorse condition, and as it were of a bastard and sophicall nature.
1739 S. Harris Comm. 53rd Chap. Isa. 256 (T.) All those books which are called sophical, such as the Wisdom of Sirach, etc.
ˈsophically adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [adverb]
dighenlichec893
diȝelichec1200
darklyc1350
mysteriously1486
mystically1509
in (a) mystery1526
abstrusely1611
cryptically1663
oracularly1771
occultly1793
pokerishly1854
mystifically1880
sophically1888
sphinxily1889
mystifyingly1937
1888 (title) Thesaurus incantatus. The enchanted treasure; or, the Spagyric Quest of Beroaldus Cosmopolita, in which is sophically and mystagorically declared the first matter of the stone.
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