a. [ L. sapidus, fr. sapere to taste: cf. F. sapide. See Sapient, Savor. ] Having the power of affecting the organs of taste; possessing savor, or flavor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Camels, to make the water sapid, do raise the mud with their feet. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. sapidité. ] The quality or state of being sapid; taste; savor; savoriness. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whether one kind of sapidity is more effective than another. M. S. Lamson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being sapid; sapidity. [ 1913 Webster ]

When the Israelites fancied the sapidness and relish of the fleshpots, they longed to taste and to return. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. sapientia: cf. F. sapience. See Sapient.. ] The quality of being sapient; wisdom; sageness; knowledge. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Woman, if I might sit beside your feet,
And glean your scattered sapience. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sapiens, -entis, p. pr. of sapere to taste, to have sense, to know. See Sage, a. ] Wise; sage; discerning; -- often in irony or contempt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Where the sapient king
Held dalliance with his fair Egyptian spouse. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Sage; sagacious; knowing; wise; discerning. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sapientialis. ] Having or affording wisdom. -- Sa`pi*en"tial*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

The sapiential books of the Old [Testament]. Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]

a. Sapiential. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make sapient. [ R. ] Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sapient manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to an order of trees and shrubs (Sapindaceae), including the (typical) genus Sapindus, the maples, the margosa, and about seventy other genera. [ 1913 Webster ]