Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Containing, exhibiting, or affording wisdom; characterized by wisdom.
Wiktionary
- adj. containing or conferring wisdom (especially religious wisdom)
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having or affording wisdom.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. characterized by wisdom, especially the wisdom of God
Examples
“Paul's "sapiential" christology invites us to welcome the salvation offered by the crucified and risen Lord, the Eternal Son, who is the very wisdom and power of God.”
“The sapiential tradition of the bible acclaims God as "the very author of beauty" (Wisdom 13, 3), glorifying him for the greatness and beauty of the works of creation.”
“Dominic Crossan writes that Jesus subscribed to "sapiential eschatology", which he describes as announces that God has given all human beings the wisdom to discern how, here and now in this world, one can so live that God's power, rule, and dominion are evidently present to all observers.”
“In the first place, I refer to the reform of ecclesiastical studies of philosophy, a project which has now reached the last stages of its elaboration, in which the metaphysical and sapiential dimensions of philosophy, mentioned by John Paul II in his Encyclical Fides et Ratio cf. n. 81, will certainly be emphasized.”
“Book of Intellectual Circles (Sefer ha-˜agullot ha-re˜yoniyyot); it was one of the direct sources of a Spanish philosopher and kabbalist, Isaac Ibn Latif, who spoke about the Brethren's doctrine of the five degrees of soul (vegetal, animal, human, sapiential, prophetical) in his Hebrew book The Gate of Heavens (Sha˜ar ha-shamayim), written in the period”
Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought
“That's sapiential eschatology in John D Crossan's terminology.”
“Just as, in the sapiential books of Hebrew Scripture and the Apocrypha, God's wisdom makes it possible to understand the world as a coherent whole, so the conviction of covenant fidelity makes it possible to understand the history of Israel as a whole, as one story.”
“It is to be noted that in the pre-sapiential books of the Old Testament, the uncreated”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability
“Rufinus add the "Teaching" to the sapiential and other deutero-canonical books.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery
“Besides reading or having read to him certain parts adapted to the spiritual probation he was undergoing, such as Job, the Passion of our Lord, and chapters of the sapiential books, he also took the entire Scriptures in course, going slowly through them from cover to cover and insisting on every word being read, genealogies and all.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sapiential’.
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phrontistery-s
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2057 more...
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Philosophic , etymology
every major discipline has uniquely developed esoteric nomenclature to facilitate interdisciplinary dissemination
quale , qualia, elegy, tacet, lexicon, annunciate, caste, eros, contrive, purlicue, irony, venacular, dilapidate and 569 more...
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AbraxasZugzwang's Words
atavism, abraxas, sisyphean, frust, fetus-in-fetu, arhythmically, queef, epidemiology, abecedarian, troglodyte, chiaroscuro, philology and 631 more...
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My Treasures
Well everyone's lists are favourites or pets or useful terms, no? These are mine.
mephitic, cagastric, wulm, scaevity, seplasiary, sevidical, sevous, soleated, soloecal, sputcheon, stagma, temerate and 173 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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Foucault's Pendulum
telluric, isochronal, Agarttha, obverse, panta rei, numinous, ogive, nave, sapiential, didactic, archon, chthonian and 48 more...
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Religious Jargon
soteriology, eschatology, supplication, hypostasis, syncretism, Platonism, Midrash, exegesis, didache, Apocrypha, epistle, sapiential and 14 more...
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McNamarian Vocab
William McNamara, O.C.D. presents the spirituality of "the word made flesh"
embody, enflesh, howl, amplitude, cocreators, fragmented, estranged, resounds, parousia, resonates, enfleshment, entrusted and 26 more...
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My favourite english words
subjacent, invidious, virtu, overt, quadrangle, deliciously, antithetical, soporific, flummery, amusia, cakewalk, congruence and 65 more...
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