Crossword clues for sapient
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sapient \Sa"pi*ent\, a. [L. sapiens, -entis, p. pr. of sapere to taste, to have sense, to know. See Sage, a.] Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt.
Where the sapient king
Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse.
--Milton.
Syn: Sage; sagacious; knowing; wise; discerning.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"wise," late 15c. (early 15c. as a surname), from Old French sapient, from Latin sapientem (nominative sapiens), present participle of sapere "to taste, have taste, be wise," from PIE root *sep- (1) "to taste, perceive" (cognates: Old Saxon an-sebban "to perceive, remark," Old High German antseffen, Old English sefa "mind, understanding, insight").
Wiktionary
a. 1 Attempting to appear wise or discerning. 2 (context dated English) Possessing wisdom and discernment; wise, learned. 3 (context chiefly science fiction English) Of a species or life-form, possessing intelligence or self-awareness. n. (context chiefly science fiction English) An intelligent, self-aware being.
WordNet
adj. acutely insightful and wise; "much too perspicacious to be taken in by such a spurious argument"; "observant and thoughtful, he was given to asking sagacious questions"; "a source of valuable insights and sapient advice to educators" [syn: perspicacious, sagacious]
Wikipedia
SAPIENT is a program of the Erasmus Mundus initiative to provide scholarship opportunities to South African students to study in Europe.
The project is coordinated by Radboud University Nijmegen, and comprises a consortium of colleges and universities from the International Research Universities Network and their South African partners:
- Jagiellonian University, Krakow
- Radboud University Nijmegen
- University of Duisburg-Essen
- University of Münster
- University of Poitiers
- University of Siena
- University of KwaZulu-Natal
- University of Limpopo
- University of Pretoria
- Rhodes University
- University of South Africa
- Stellenbosch University
Usage examples of "sapient".
He had two eyes in front, close enough for stereoscopic vision, but that was a common characteristic of sapient life forms everywhere.
Well, environmental conditions being the same here and on Terra, the same physical structure is the most efficient for a race of sapient beings.
If on Suicide Night they relied solely on a beam, even a spreading one, some sapient life, in particular tnuctipun, might have dodged it.
There was something like a drum roll, whose crescendo would be the command that ended sapient life.
Likewise, it is our responsibility to police the safety of friendly sapient races.
That is, if they could establish that there were no sapient inhabitants.
The sentient, or perhaps I should say, sapient life-forms on other planets will be very alien.
Angel had set out millions of years ago to find aliensnot the strange creatures that thronged the riverside cities of Confluence, which were merely animals changed by design to resemble human beings, but true aliens, sapient creatures of a completely separate and independent evolutionary sequence.
Although no sapient aliens had been found in the Home Galaxy, the Universe was a vast place.
It could not explain why there were thousands of different, seemingly sapient, alien races crowded together on the surface of a single world-sized habitat.
He hesitated an instant, no doubt stunned to find a fellow Sapient among the brutes he had come to slaughter.
The vast soap bubble of a ship carried forty-one individuals of eight sapient species, five of them unknown to me.
A creature not sapient can die of the shock or kill itself trying to break free, and herders or conservationists blame us.
Who would have thought that we dolphins, youngest registered sapient race in the Civilization of Five Galaxies, would become patrons ourselves, just a few centuries after humans started uplifting us.
Captain Creideiki and a neo-dolphin intellectual elite in the greatest mental and physical adventure any group of cetaceans ever faced -- the ultimate test of their new sapient race.