What's the difference between sagacious and wise?

Sagacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Of quick sense perceptions; keen-scented; skilled in following a trail.
  • (a.) Hence, of quick intellectual perceptions; of keen penetration and judgment; discerning and judicious; knowing; far-sighted; shrewd; sage; wise; as, a sagacious man; a sagacious remark.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This led directly to Briers working with Branagh on many subsequent projects: as a perhaps too likeable Malvolio ("My best part, and I know it," he said) in an otherwise wintry Twelfth Night at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, in 1987, and on a world tour with the Renaissance company as a ropey King Lear (the set really was a mass of ropes, the production dubbed "String Lear") and a sagacious, though not riotously funny, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream.
  • (2) Election officials have also disqualified Raja Pervaiz Ashraf, the man who until just a few weeks ago was the country's prime minister, under articles ensuring candidates are, among many other things, "sagacious, righteous and non-profligate".
  • (3) He is a kindly and sagacious presence on our television screens and, in this febrile pre-referendum climate, has attained mystical powers for Scottish nationalists.
  • (4) As the more sagacious judges tell us, managers are rarely as good as they are cracked up to be when they are winning, and not as bad in adversity.
  • (5) The nurse's sagacious management of neurologic, hemodynamic and pulmonary status and the ongoing support of the patient and family throughout the angioplasty procedure is crucial to a positive outcome.
  • (6) The tour was organised by the normally ­sagacious Dr Ali Bacher, who had been South Africa's last ­captain before the country was banished from Test cricket at the start of the 1970s.
  • (7) The captain who guided it through the rapids was the sagacious Lord Bragg, who would rather be remembered as the novelist Melvyn Bragg .
  • (8) And, now, perhaps seeing the peak of the native advertising bubble, and with the help of the ever-clueless New York Times , it is, sagaciously, ready to get out with whatever it can.
  • (9) Credit must also go to the sagacious Pékerman whose faith in the young star has allowed Rodríguez to truly blossom.
  • (10) Because he feels at home in the 12th century, an era of sagacious kings and sustainable cabbages.

Wise


Definition:

  • (v.) Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.
  • (v.) Hence, especially, making due use of knowledge; discerning and judging soundly concerning what is true or false, proper or improper; choosing the best ends and the best means for accomplishing them; sagacious.
  • (v.) Versed in art or science; skillful; dexterous; specifically, skilled in divination.
  • (v.) Hence, prudent; calculating; shrewd; wary; subtle; crafty.
  • (v.) Dictated or guided by wisdom; containing or exhibiting wisdom; well adapted to produce good effects; judicious; discreet; as, a wise saying; a wise scheme or plan; wise conduct or management; a wise determination.
  • (v.) Way of being or acting; manner; mode; fashion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A more current view of science, the Probabilistic paradigm, encourages more complex models, which can be articulated as the more flexible maxims used with insight by the wise clinician.
  • (2) I liked watching Morecambe & Wise, I liked the Queen's speech because it was on and everyone listened to it.
  • (3) Based on these data, we propose that 19-oxygenated androgen intermediates are biosynthesized sequentially in a step-wise fashion as the cytochrome P450 and NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase form transient complexes, and that the amount of isolatable 19-oxygenated androgen is proportional to the amount of excess cytochrome P450 component.
  • (4) But Zambelis added: "Whatever rebel government emerges, China already has a place in the country business-wise.
  • (5) First, I recapped Die Hard 2 – the insane cross-eyed Gizmo of the Die Hard world – a few months ago, and now I'm secretly determined to do the whole series before the Guardian film editors wise up and yank this feature from my warm, live hands.
  • (6) At the hearing, committee chairman Senator Patrick Leahy, praised the secret service as "wise, very professional men and women", and called it shocking that so many of the agency's employees were involved in the scandal.
  • (7) The acid-mediated Z form binds ethidium more weakly than its B counterpart, and the ethidium induced Z to B conversion occurs in a step-wise (non-allosteric) fashion without the requirement of a threshold concentration.
  • (8) But some wise old heads sniff into their handkerchiefs because they have sat through too many costly "happy ever after" ceremonies that ended in acrimony.
  • (9) He has to grow up and wise up to the fact that people at West Brom have supported him right from the beginning of his career.
  • (10) In an attempt to show the public and cabinet colleagues that money being ring-fenced from Treasury cuts will be spent wisely, Mitchell said he wanted to know whether money spent at agencies such as the World Bank and the UN matched up to the government's anti-poverty objectives and delivered real benefits.
  • (11) The rate constants involved in the step-wise dissociation, process were obtained.
  • (12) The Republican presidential candidate then told Fox News that Amazon is “getting away with murder tax-wise” and has a “huge antitrust problem because he’s [Bezos] controlling so much”.
  • (13) Two new bifunctional reagents suited for the step-wise cross-linking of cysteine and lysine residues in proteins are described.
  • (14) The correction of hallux varus must be performed in a well planned, step-wise method.
  • (15) It's wise, however, not to concentrate on the exact path of Sandy.
  • (16) Concentrations of ceftriaxone and cefotaxime were measured by Andrews and Wise in blister fluids, in ascites and pleural fluid by us.
  • (17) Given a choice between placating the Freedom Caucus and placating Donald Trump, Ryan is wisely choosing self-preservation with the former.
  • (18) San Antonio wisely takes a timeout hoping to cool him down.
  • (19) Crozier has had time to play with since he arrived, but the question is whether he has used his first year wisely to build for the future.
  • (20) After different time intervals following a single or course-wise administration of the compound the level of total lipids was determined in the muscles and liver of the mice, and of the total lipids, beta-lipoproteins, phospholipids, cholesterol, fatty acids and 11-oxycorticosteroids levels in the blood serum of rabbits and of the bile acids content in the vesical bile of these animals.