wise man

noun

Etymology: wise + man

1. A man who is wise.

   “That is the reason, why some say, that the wiseman liveth as long as he ought, and not so long as he can.”

   “But where's that wiseman, that would not be I, / If she would not deny?”

2. A man who is a sage or seer.

   “Steady old Väinämöinen / the everlasting wise man [translating tietäjä] / was driving along his roads / pacing out his ways / in those glades of Väinö-land / on the Kalevala heaths.”

3. A magus or wizard, now especially one of the three biblical magi.

   “Some of the other charms employed by the wise men had a more tangled pedigree.”