wiseman

See also: wise man

English

Noun

wiseman (plural wisemen)

1. Obsolete form of wise man.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 108:

     Well ſaid the wiſeman, now prou’d true by this,
     Which to this gentle Squire did happen late,
     That the diſpleaſure of the mighty is
     Then death it ſelfe more dread and deſperate.

Anagrams

• Weisman, Wiemans, Wiesman, manwise