Sawest vs Sagest - What's the difference?
sawest | sagest |
(archaic)
(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), ยง 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 verb sawest
is second-person singular past of lang=en.As an adjective sagest is
superlative of sage.sawest
English
Verb
- Daniel 2:34 Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet [that were] of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces.
Anagrams
*sagest
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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 .