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sciential, a.|saɪˈɛnʃəl|
Forms: 5 sciencial, 7 scientiall, 7– sciential.
[ad. med.L. scientiālis, f. L. scientia: see science.]
1. Of or pertaining to knowledge or science. † sciential faith: faith resting on demonstrative evidence.
c1456Pecock Bk. of Faith (1909) 141 The more cleer, sure, and expert evydencis ben had for a sciencial feith, the more is thilk sciencial feith. 1605B. Jonson Masque Blackness Wks. (1616) 898 His light scientiall is, and (past mere nature) Can salue the rude defects of euery creature. 1645Milton Tetrach. 23 Those Sciential rules which are the implements of instruction. 1667― P.L. ix. 837 The power..whose presence had infus'd Into the plant sciential sap. 1680I. C. Vind. Oaths & Swearing (ed. 2) 3 An oath hath place but in such things as depend upon testimony, and the speakers credit and honesty, and is not to be used in things purely sciential and probable by demonstration. 1788T. Taylor Proclus I. 19 He ascended to the greatest and most consummate or telestic virtues; employing for this purpose, the felicity of his nature, and a sciential institution. 1820Lamb Elia 1. Oxf. Vac., The odour of their old moth⁓scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard. 1827Coleridge Lit. Rem. (1838) IV. 423 Their entire consonance with..the Scriptures and with the sciential and the practical reason. 1834Whewell in Todhunter Acc. Writ. (1876) II. 186 Modes of conception, sciential conditions, or whatever else you can help me to call them.
2. Endowed with knowledge.
1477Earl Rivers (Caxton) Dictes 17 The wiese man knoweth the prouffit of the riche & the riche knoweth not the prouffit of the sciencial wiese man. 1646Gaule Cases of Consc. 28 That is the Magicall, Speculative, Scientiall, or Arted Witch. 1820Keats Lamia i. 191 Not one hour old, yet of sciential brain To unperplex bliss from its neighbour pain. 1891Meredith One of our Conq. I. xiv. 265 A sciential rascal.
Hence † ˈscientialness. Obs. rare—1.
1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Love 39 b, Onely the taking on knowledge which is learned out of the scientialnes of the letter..is blamed by HN. |