adj. Wise, discreet, prudent, sagacious :-- Mē dynceþ wīslīc, gif dū geseó da þing beteran, dæt wē dām onfōn, Bd. 2, 13 ; S. 516, 10. Is wīslīc rǣd, dæt manna gehwylc geornlīce smeáge, Wulfst. 4, 21. Wīslīc wærscipe, L. I. P. 10; Th. ii. 318, 37. Ðīn mildheortnes wīslīc standeþ, deórust and gedēfust, Ps. Th. 102, 16. Mid wīslīcum gedylde, Homl. Th. ii. 222, 21. Hē him wīslīce andsware sende ille ei prudens responsum misit, L. Ecg. P. iii. 14; Th. ii. 200, 20. Ðū ǣghwylces canst worda wīslīc andgit. Andr. Kmbl. 1018 ; An. 509. Wera gehwylcum wīslīcu word gerīsaþ. Exon. Th. 343, 34 ; Gen. Ex. 166. Ongan se biscop lustfullian dæs iungan snyttro and his wīslīcra worda delectabatur antistes prudentia verborum juvenis. Bd. 5, 19; S. 637, 47. Drihten wordum wīslīcum herian, Ps. Th. 65, l. Rǣd ford gǣd, hafaþ wīslīcuWord on fæðme, Cd. Th. 211, 14; Exod. 526. Wíslícu wundur oncnáwan, Ps. Th. 87, 11. Swá déme hé swá him wíslícost þince judicet pro ut ipsi prudentissimum videbitur, L. Ecg. C. 32; Th. ii. 156, 20. [O. Sax. wís-lík: O. H. Ger. wís-líh sagax, Urbanu.]