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inscience Now rare.|ˈɪnʃɪəns|
[ad. L. inscientia want of knowledge, ignorance, f. inscient-em (see next), after scientia knowledge, science. Cf. obs. F. inscience (15–16th c.), It. inscienza (Florio).]
The condition of not knowing; want of knowledge; nescience, ignorance.
1578Banister Hist. Man Pref. 5 Rather..a meane to indurate the cataract of inscience, then to..take it away. 1579Lodge Def. Plays 5 Are his speeches unperfect? Sauor they of inscience? 1675J. Smith Chr. Relig. App. 3 (L.) Their inscience of the natural cause. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts (1684) 179 Not to know things without the Arch of our intellectuals..is..rather inscience than ignorance in man. 1810Bentham Packing (1821) 179 note, On the part of the learned author..behold still the same pleasantry; or still the same simplicity and inscience. a1896Benson Cyprian (1897) 83 note, [His] special pleading is matched by his inscience of every technical law term. |