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sagest

ADJECTIVE

wise

Synonyms

STRONG

contemplative cunning enlightened knowing sharp smart sound understanding

WEAK

astute aware careful clever discerning educated experienced foresighted informed insightful intelligent intuitive judicious knowledgeable learned perceptive reflective sagacious sapient scholarly sensible shrewd thoughtful

Antonyms

STRONG

dull kind slow stupid unintelligent unstylish

Example Sentences

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Planche, in an excellent memoir on the sagos, has described six species, which he distinguishes by the names of the places from which they come.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

At so great a distance it is difficult to decide as to which of these trees really produce the ordinary sagos of commerce, for there are several kinds.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Whatever may be the places of origin of these sagos, they all possess the following characters— Rounded globules, generally spherical, all isolated, very hard, elastic, and difficult to break or powder.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.