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Wiser

Wise \Wise\, a. [Compar. Wiser; superl. Wisest.] [OE. wis, AS. w[=i]s; akin to OS. & OFries. w[=i]s, D. wijs, G. weise, OHG. w[=i]s, w[=i]si, Icel. v[=i]ss, Sw. vis, Dan. viis, Goth. weis; akin to wit, v. i. See Wit, v., and cf. Righteous, Wisdom.]

  1. Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.

    They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
    --Jer. iv. 2

  2. 2. Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.

    When clouds appear, wise men put their cloaks.
    --Shak.

    From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation.
    --2 Tim. iii. 15.

  3. Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.

    Fal. There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with me; but she's gone. Sim. Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of Brentford?
    --Shak.

  4. Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty. [R.] ``Thou art . . . no novice, but a governor wily and wise.''
    --Chaucer.

    Nor, on the other side, Will I be penuriously wise As to make money, that's my slave, my idol.
    --Beau. & Fl.

    Lords do not care for me: I am too wise to die yet.
    --Ford.

  5. Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination. ``Eminent in wise deport.''
    --Milton.

    To make it wise, to make it a matter of deliberation. [Obs.] `` We thought it was not worth to make it wise.''
    --Chaucer.

    Wise in years, old enough to be wise; wise from age and experience; hence, aged; old. [Obs.]

    A very grave, state bachelor, my dainty one; He's wise in years, and of a temperate warmth.
    --Ford.

    You are too wise in years, too full of counsel, For my green experience.
    --Ford.

Wiktionary
wiser

a. (en-comparative of: wise)

Wikipedia
Wiser (album)

Wiser is the second album by Halou.

Wiser

Wiser may refer to:

  • Barbara Nath-Wiser, an Austrian doctor
  • Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders, known as WISER
  • Wiser (album), by Halou
  • Wiser, Indiana, a small town in the United States
  • Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER), a non-profit NGO in Muhuru Bay, Kenya

Usage examples of "wiser".

I heard thee aright, there is another woman in the tale who is also fairer and wiser than other women?

Now I will tell thee of my thought, since we be at point of sundering, though thou take it amiss and be wroth with me: to wit, that thou wouldst have lost the love of this lady as time wore, even had she not been slain: and she being, if no fay, yet wiser than other women, and foreseeing, knew that so it would be.

Burgers may be wiser still than thou deemest, and ye may have learned them more than thou art minded to think.

I thought that it would be wiser to say nothing of the matter at this time.

As you decide, you shall be left as you were before, and neither richer nor wiser, unless the sense of service rendered to a man in mortal distress may be counted as a kind of riches of the soul.

She knows everything now, and I would have been a wiser man if I had told her sooner.

I have ever been prone to seek adventure and to investigate and experiment where wiser men would have left well enough alone.

Helium was but another of his awful blunders which I fear will sooner or later compel Zodanga to elevate a wiser man to his place.

Watching the sun also as it climbed down the cloudless sky, and literally counting the minutes till it should reach the horizon, although I knew well that it would have been wiser after such a night to prepare for our journey by lying down to sleep.

Val, he had long ago decided that placid avoidance was the wiser course.

That way if young Lochinvar rides up and sweeps you off your feet, I can bow out gracefully, a wounded but wiser man.

You are impertinent, it seemed to say, but I am older and wiser, so I will ignore it, and you.

They are, in fact, contributing to make him a wiser, a stronger, a better, a happier, and in all respects, a completer, and a diviner being than he otherwise would be.

And if all men were naturally good, as Unitarianism taught, what could be wiser or better calculated to secure the happiness of a nation, than to give every one an equal share of the power?

But the fact was not made so plain, so palpable to the audience, as it should have been, and as it might have been, if I had had a wiser, a warier, and an abler opponent, and one who had no false theory of Bible inspiration or abstract perfection to defend.