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sage 1

 (sāj)
n.
One venerated for experience, judgment, and wisdom.
adj. sag·er, sag·est
1. Having or exhibiting wisdom and calm judgment.
2. Proceeding from or marked by wisdom and calm judgment: sage advice.
3. Archaic Serious; solemn.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *sapius, from Latin sapere, to be wise; see sep- in Indo-European roots.]
sage′ly adv.
sage′ness n.
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sage2
common sage
Salvia officinalis

sage 2

 (sāj)
n.
1.
a. Any of various plants of the genus Salvia of the mint family, especially S. officinalis, having aromatic grayish-green leaves.
b. The leaves of S. officinalis used as a seasoning.
2. Any of various similar or related plants, chiefly in the mint family.
3. Sagebrush.
[Middle English sauge, from Old French, from Latin salvia, from salvus, healthy; see sol- in Indo-European roots.]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adv.1.sagely - in a wise manner; "she acted wisely when she invited her parents"
wisely
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Translations
بِحِكْمَه، بِتَعَقُّل
moudře
vist
weise
sagement
spaklega, viturlega
múdro
bilgece
贤明地

sagely

[ˈseɪdʒlɪ] ADV (= wisely) → sabiamente; (= sensibly) → con cordura
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

sagely

[ˈseɪdʒli] adv (= wisely) → sagement
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

sagely

adv → weise
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

sagely

[ˈseɪdʒlɪ] adv → saggiamente
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

sage2

(seidʒ) noun
a wise man. the sages of past centuries.
adjective
wise. sage advice.
ˈsagely adverb
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"Quite true; I had not thought of it," I replied, wagging my head sagely. "But have you thought of ordering the window-glass?
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Thus spake the wanderer who called himself Zarathustra's shadow; and before any one answered him, he had seized the harp of the old magician, crossed his legs, and looked calmly and sagely around him:--with his nostrils, however, he inhaled the air slowly and questioningly, like one who in new countries tasteth new foreign air.
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"Snow will be good for the wheat," observed the druggist sagely.
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John merely pointed to him as he stood with his head bent forward, and his earnest gaze fixed closely on his questioner's face; and nodded sagely.
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He could talk sagely about the world's old age, but never actually believed what he said; he was a young man still, and therefore looked upon the world--that gray-bearded and wrinkled profligate, decrepit, without being venerable--as a tender stripling, capable of being improved into all that it ought to be, but scarcely yet had shown the remotest promise of becoming.
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It fully explained his eccentricities, John reflected sagely, as he mixed himself a grog.
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"Ah, that's the secret," said Joan Durbeyfield sagely. "However, 'tis well to be kin to a coach, even if you don't ride in 'en." She dropped her public voice, and continued in a low tone to her husband: "I've been thinking since you brought the news that there's a great rich lady out by Trantridge, on the edge o' The Chase, of the name of d'Urberville."
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Both gentlemen nodded sagely as they carved their apples.
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These here revolve, or, as thou likest, at home, Till time mature thee to a kingdom's weight; These rules will render thee a king complete Within thyself, much more with empire joined." To whom our Saviour sagely thus replied:-- "Think not but that I know these things; or, think I know them not, not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought.
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"Thought he would," said Peg, nodding sagely. "I seen to that.
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"No," he replied sagely; "your garden is not your duty, because it is your Pleasure."
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A chorus of bystanders took up the shout of Count Smorltork's praise, shook their heads sagely, and unanimously cried, 'Very!'
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