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sapientize

sapientize verb: to make sapient.

Verb

sapientize (third-person singular simple present sapientizes, present participle sapientizing, simple past and past participle sapientized)

  1. (rare, transitive) To make sapient.
    • Truly evangelical way of solemnizing a party measure, and sapientizing Calvin's 'tolerabiles ineptias' by making them 'ineptias usque ad carcerem et verbera intolerantes!'c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Jeremy Taylor

Forms of sapientize

third-person singular presentsapientizes
present participlesapientizing
past participlesapientized
pastsapientized

Origin of sapientize

From sapient + -ize.

Questions about sapientize

What does sapientize mean?
Sapientize means to make sapient.
What part of speech is sapientize?
Sapientize is a verb.
What is the past tense of sapientize?
The past tense of sapientize is sapientized.

Words near sapientize in the dictionary

  1. sapiential
  2. sapientially
  3. sapientious
  4. sapientisation
  5. sapientization
  6. sapientize
  7. sapientized
  8. sapientizes
  9. sapientizing
  10. sapiently
  11. sapients

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