a. Obs. [OE. snot(t)or, -er, = OHG. snottar, ON. snotr, Goth. snutrs, in the same sense.] Wise, learned, skilful. Also absol.
c. 950. Lindisf. Gosp., Matt. xxiii. 34. Witʓo & snotre menn & uð-uuto.
971. Blickling Hom., 107. ʓe ʓeonge ʓe ealde, ʓe snottre ʓe unwise.
c. 1100. O. E. Chron. (MS. F.), an. 995. Ðes Ælfric was swyðe ʓewis mann, þet nas nan snotere man on Engla lande.
c. 1200. Ormin, 7087. [The Magi that] unnderrstodenn maniȝwhatt Þurrh snoterr gyn bi sterrness.
