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sapientize

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To make sapient.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: rare, transitive

Examples

  • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor Truly evangelical way of solemnizing a party measure, and sapientizing Calvin's 'tolerabiles ineptias' by making them 'ineptias usque ad carcerem et verbera intolerantes!'

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From sapient + -ize.