Ager vs Sager - What's the difference?
ager | sager |
One who or that which ages something.
(label) One who is aging; an elderly person.
* 1965 , Richard Hays Williams, Claudine G. Wirths, Lives Through the Years: Styles of Life and Successful Aging , Transaction Publishers (ISBN 9780202367125), page 165
* 2006 , Gloria Davenport, Working with Toxic Older Adults: A Guide to Coping with Difficult Elders , Springer Publishing Company (ISBN 9780826117236), page 143
* 2014 , Susan H. Mcfadden, Mark Brennan, NEW DIRECTIONS IN THE STUDY OF LATE , Routledge (ISBN 9781134731107), page 62
(sage)
Wise.
* Shakespeare
* Milton
(obsolete) grave; serious; solemn
* Milton
A wise person or spiritual teacher; a man or woman of gravity and wisdom, especially, a teacher venerable for years, and of sound judgment and prudence; a grave or stoic philosopher.
* 1748 , (David Hume), Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , London: Oxford University Press (1973), § 34:
The plant Salvia officinalis and savory spice produced from it; also planted for ornamental purposes.
(Internet slang) The act of using the word or option sage in the email field or a checkbox of an imageboard when posting a reply
As a noun ager
is one who or that which ages something.As an adjective sager is
comparative of sage.ager
English
Noun
(en noun)- When the aging person depends on another, the control of the aged one's life space is placed in the hands of another person who may or may not contribute action energy that is appropriate or acceptable from the standpoint of the ager .
- Inappropriate behavior then erupts from the agers' involved, disturbing everyone around, including the ' agers themselves, who often do not understand what is happening and struggle excessively to maintain rigid control of old perceptions and self images.
- This definition of success is located in society's structures and suits society, not the agers . Successful ageing is arguably therefore a socially constructed phenomenon, characterized by lack of “noise,” maintenance of youthful status until death, and a dogged engagement with social structures which appear almost as if designed to discourage the engagement of older people.
Anagrams
* * * * ----sager
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Adjective
(head)Anagrams
* ----sage
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) sage (11th century), from . The noun meaning "man of profound wisdom" is recorded from circa 1300. Originally applied to the Seven Sages of Greece .Adjective
(er)- All you sage counsellors, hence!
- commanders, who, cloaking their fear under show of sage advice, counselled the general to retreat
- [Great bards] in sage and solemn tunes have sung.
Synonyms
* sagaciousNoun
(en noun)- We aspire to the magnanimous firmness of the philosophic sage .
