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Webster 1913 Edition


Sapience

Sa′pi-ence

,
Noun.
[L.
sapientia
: cf. F.
sapience
. See
Sapient
..]
The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge.
Cowper.
Woman, if I might sit beside your feet,
And glean your scattered
sapience
.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Sapience

SA'PIENCE

,
Noun.
[L. sapientia, from sapio, to taste, to know.]
Wisdom; sageness; knowledge.
- Still has gratitude and sapience to spare the folks that give him ha' pence.