Now rare. [f. WISE a. + -LING1 2.] A pretender to wisdom; a wiseacre.

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1633.  J. Done, Hist. Septuagint, 214. These wiselings, that shew themselues fooles in so speaking, and discoursing without Discourse.

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1649.  J. Ellistone, trans. Behmen’s Epist. (1886), 3. Those Luciferian wiselings that thought none could teach them anything.

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1765.  Law, Behmen’s Myst. Magnum, xxxix. 222. Let Master Sophister or Wiseling of Babel look us right in the Face.

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1914.  Nellen & Craig, trans. Ozanam’s Francisc. Poets Italy, v. 245. He praises the wisdom which shrinks from the wiselings.

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