Possessed of discernment, especially in avoiding
error or evil, and in the adaptation of means to ends; prudent;
sagacious; judicious; not rash or heedless; cautious.
1. (Myth.) The principal goddess worshiped by the Egyptians. She was regarded as the mother of Horus, and the sister and wife of Osiris. The Egyptians adored her as the goddess of fecundity, an...