sapientize

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

sapient +‎ -ize

Verb[edit]

sapientize (third-person singular simple present sapientizes, present participle sapientizing, simple past and past participle sapientized)

  1. (transitive, rare) To make sapient.
    • 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!'