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† ˈinscious, a. Obs.
[f. L. insci-us not knowing, ignorant (f. in-, in-3 + -scius knowing) + -ous. Cf. conscious.]
= inscient a.1
1633T. Adams Exp. 2 Peter iii. 5 He begins with the dunces, those..inscious..wilful ignorants. 1635Heywood Hierarch. vii. Comm. 450 The inscious man may be knowne by three things. 1657M. Hawke Killing is M. 54 His Followers cannot be inscious, what an abhominable and odious crime it is to betray their Lord and Master.
Hence † ˈinsciously adv., unwittingly.
1675Baxter Cath. Theol. i. i. 109 Thus insciously he unsaith what laboriously he writeth a book to prove. |