[wis.dom] n [ME, fr. OE wisdom, fr. wis wise] (bef. 12c) 1 a: accumulated philosophic or scientific learning: knowledge b: ability to discern inner qualities and relationships: insight c: good sense: judgment d: generally accepted belief "challenges what has become accepted ~ among many historians --Robert Darnton"
2: a wise attitude or course of action
3: the teachings of the ancient wise men syn see sense Wisdom n: a didactic book included in the Roman Catholic canon of the Old Testament and corresponding to the Wisdom of Solomon in the Protestant Apocrypha