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Wise

adjective

(compar. wiser; superl. wisest)

1.

Having or prompted by wisdom or discernment. "A wise and perceptive comment"

2.

Marked by the exercise of good judgment or common sense in practical matters. Synonyms: heady, judicious. "A wise decision"

3.

Evidencing the possession of inside information. Synonyms: knowing, wise to.

4.

Improperly forward or bold. Synonyms: fresh, impertinent, impudent, overbold, sassy, saucy, smart. "Impertinent of a child to lecture a grownup" , "An impudent boy given to insulting strangers" , "Don't get wise with me!"

noun

1.

A way of doing or being. "In this wise"

2.

United States Jewish leader (born in Hungary) (1874-1949). Synonym: Stephen Samuel Wise.

3.

United States religious leader (born in Bohemia) who united reform Jewish organizations in the United States (1819-1900). Synonym: Isaac Mayer Wise.

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"Wise" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Prospero: 'let us not remember our troubles past, since they so happily have ended.' And then Prospero embraced his brother, and again assured him of his forgiveness; and said that a wise overruling Providence had permitted that he should be driven from his poor dukedom of Milan, that his daughter might inherit the crown of Naples, for that by their meeting in this desert island, it had happened that the king's son had ...

— Tales from Shakespeare • Charles and Mary Lamb

... environment. When this environment is heightened, and universal instead of logical and particular, we have the "grand style;" but we have the grand style generally in poetry, and to be sure of style at all prose—such prose as Goujon's, which in no wise emulates Michael Angelo's poetry—may justifiably neglect in some degree the specific personality that tends to make it ...

— French Art - Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture • W. C. Brownell

... just heard from Maude, who says there is a possibility that you will not come to Vassar; but I shall be so disappointed if you do not. I would rather have you here than all the wise old heads in the State. So come without fail, no matter what you are doing. I can't imagine anything which should keep you. Tell grandma I am longing to be home, and keep thinking just how cool and nice the kitchen looks, with the hop-vine over the door; but ...

— Tracy Park • Mary Jane Holmes

... Perhaps he will jib at it, for indeed 'tis difficult to renounce what has become one's second nature. However, many have done it, and adopting the ideas of others, have changed their use and wont. As for Philocleon's son, I, like all wise and judicious men, cannot sufficiently praise his filial tenderness and his tact. Never have I met a more amiable nature, and I have conceived the greatest fondness for him. How he triumphed on every point in his discussion with ...

— The Eleven Comedies - Vol. I • Aristophanes et al

... and friend of England, and that is a good reason why England should look sympathetically towards little Serbia. There is a Serbian proverb: "A wise lion seeks friends not only among the lions, but among the bees too." Of course Serbia needs England much more than England needs Serbia. I will not now dwell upon Serbia's material needs; I will tell you about what ...

— Serbia in Light and Darkness - With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916) • Nikolaj Velimirovic

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