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Definition of Sages
1. sage [n] - See also: sage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sages
Literary usage of Sages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by James Legge (1899)
"1 ' The sages' here must mean the sage sovereigns of antiquity, who had at once
the highest wisdom and the highest place. 2 See a note on p. ..."
2. The History of India from the Earliest Ages by James Talboys Wheeler (1869)
"INDIA. the sages as xi . mT • •iv. Each hermitage is said to have belonged to
some particular sage, who is famous in Brahmanical tradition. ..."
3. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by Confucius, James Legge (1879)
"I venture to ask whether in the virtue of the sages there was not something
greater than ... 1 ' The sages' here must mean the sage sovereigns of antiquity, ..."
4. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"... Caur de Lion — The Seven sages — Bevis of Hampton — Guy of Warwick—Ywain and
... the Seven sages, Octavian, Sir Amadas, and the Hunting of the , Hare. ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Though most of the tribes paid deference to their "medicine men" or sages — mostly
the older members of the tribal camps, who were always well treated by ..."
6. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"The preface truly says it is ' a book of many and great singularities;' it is
crammed with reading from sages, fathers, schoolmen, travellers, ..."
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