wise man

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wise man

intellektuelli, älykkö, älykäs henkilö, ajattelija, mentori, ohjaaja, oppi-isä, viisas, tietäjä.

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1. A man who is wise.

2. (RQ:Flr Mntgn Essay), II.3:

That is the reason, why some say, that the wiseman liveth as long as he ought, and not so long as he can.

3. 1635, John Donne, The Triple Foole:

But where's that wiseman, that would not be I, / If she would not deny?

4. 2005, "A wise man in Washington", The Economist, 14 Dec.:

Mr Lieberman is arguably the last surviving example of a peculiar Washington species: the Wise Man who is willing to put party allegiance aside when it comes to big issues such as foreign policy.

5. A man who is a sage or seer.

6. 1989, (w), translating Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala, III:

Steady old Väinämöinen / the everlasting wise man (transterm) / was driving along his roads / pacing out his ways / in those glades of Väinö-land / on the Kalevala heaths.

7. A magus or wizard, now especially one of the three biblical magi.

8. 1971, (w), Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p.174:

Some of the other charms employed by the wise men had a more tangled pedigree.

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