Full record for sapient adj.

Definition	of an alien, having intelligence of human level
OED requirements	antedating 1962
Earliest cite	H. B. Piper 'Naudsonce'
Comment	Mike Christie submitted a 2003 cite from Larry Niven's "The Ones Who Stay Home". Michael Dolbear submitted a 1998 cite from David Weber's "More Than Honor". Michael Dolbear submitted a cite from a 1989 reprint of Marion Zimmer Bradley and Paul Edwin Zimmer's "The Survivors"; we would like to check the 1979 first edition. Douglas Winston submitted a 1983 cite from David Brin's "Startide Rising"; Mike Christie verified that the cite does not appear in the 1981 magazine version. Douglas Winston submitted a 1992 cite from Allen Steele's "Labyrinth of Night". Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 2000 reprint of Alan Dean Foster's 1999 "Phylogenesis". Douglas Winston submitted a 2000 cite from Poul Anderson's "Genesis". Ralf Brown located and Mike Christie submitted a 1968 cite from Robert Silverberg's "The Man in the Maze". Douglas Winston submitted a cite from a 1976 reprint of Larry Niven's 1970 "Ringworld". Malcolm Farmer submitted a 1962 cite from H.Beam Piper's "Naudsonce".
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for sapient adj.

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1982 S. Cooper Black Fire ix.178	The cataclysmic events should have destroyed all sapient life on the planet.
1982 S. Cooper Black Fire i. 36	Spock was unable to determine whether any sapient life forms existed on the planet.
1986 J.M. Dillard Demons i. 30	Vulcans dreamed, of curse—most sapient creatures do.
2000 P. Anderson Genesis 161	Besides fellow humans he worked closely with sapient machines, and some of them got to be friends too, of an eerie kind.