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单词 wise old man
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wise old man
(a) Having or exercising sound judgement or discernment; capable of judging truly concerning what is right or fitting, and disposed to act accordingly; having the ability to perceive and adopt the best means for accomplishing an end; characterized by good sense and prudence. Opposed to foolish. (See also wise man n. 1.) Also in wise old man; spec. = wise man n. 4.In Middle English often in collocation with ware adj.
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the mind > mental capacity > understanding > wisdom, sagacity > prudence, discretion > [adjective]
warec888
wiseOE
adviseda1325
witty1340
prudenta1382
thoughtfula1400
wisea1400
well-advisedc1405
visablea1450
canny1581
judicious1598
serious-minded1694
expedient1828
far-seeing1837
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > [adjective]
wiseOE
deada1592
sure-footed1633
inerring1661
unerring1679
safe1788
errorless1856
inerroneous1880
error-free1927
OE Beowulf 1845 Mægenes strang, and on mode frod, wis wordcwida!
c1000 Rule of Chrodegang liv Preostas sceolon gemunan þæt hig ne synt..wisran þonne Salomon.
a1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) ann. 656 Theodorus, swiðe god man & wis.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 72 Salomon þe wise.
a1250 Owl & Nightingale 192 He is wis and war of worde.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 3142 Heo wes swiðe wis of wordliche dome.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 5388 King alfred was wisost king þat longe was biuore.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 311 A Sergeaunt of lawe waar and wys.
c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 68 Thogh þt he weere worthy he was wys.
R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 113 In meet & drynke be þow scars & wisse.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 526/1 Wyce, in werkynge and ware.., discretus, providus.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 327 The vis king, that ves vicht and bald.
?1507 W. Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen (Rouen) in Poems (1998) I. 48 As wis woman ay I wrought and not as wod fule.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 78 And quha can reive vthir menis rowmis..Is now ane active man, and wyice.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. QQviiv We shulde also be wele ware or wyse, as is the serpent.
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xxv. f. xxxvv Fyve of them were folysshe, and fyve were wyse.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1463 A man witty & wise, wight, wildist in armes.
1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 156 Claudio And she is exceeding wise. Prince In euery thing but in louing Benedicke. View more context for this quotation
1639 J. Taylor Part Summers Trav. 42 To tempt and draw the wisest men to folly.
a1732 J. Gay Fables (1738) II. v. 37 That man must daily wiser grow, Whose search is bent himself to know.
1798 R. Southey Well of St. Keyne 51 She had been wiser than me, For she took a bottle to Church.
1818 S. T. Coleridge Friend II. i. 23 The first duty of a wise advocate is to convince his opponents, that he understands their arguments and sympathizes with their just feelings.
1872 Ld. Tennyson In Children's Hospital vi ‘If I,’ said the wise little Annie, ‘was you, I should cry to the dear Lord Jesus to help me.’
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost xiv. 383 The wisest of all the sons of men before the Incarnation of the Son of God was Solomon, king of Israel.
1940 S. Dell tr. C. G. Jung Integr. Personality (1941) iii. 88 The three archetypes so far mentioned—the shadow, the anima, and the wise old man—are of the kind immediately experienced in personified form.
1956 R. F. C. Hull tr. C. G. Jung Symbols of Transformation in Coll. Wks. V. ii. vii. 332 The archetype of the wise old man first appears in the father, being a personification of meaning and spirit in its procreative sense.
1961 G. Adler Living Symbol xvii. 397 The more remote and more powerful figure of the ‘wise old man’ represents a further step..to a higher and more comprehensive wisdom.
1968 A. Whitney Every Man has his Price viii. 61 Now he was a wise old man, greatly feared, much respected.
1975 D. Daniell Interpreter's House iii. 60 There is a Wise Old Man..blind and of immense strength who..blesses John Burnet.
1977 M. Green Children of Sun (rev. ed.) i. 36 A whole movement focuses passionate values..on them [sc. young men]—as opposed to focusing them on the wise old man.
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