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conscient, a. (n.) Now rare.|ˈkɒnʃ(ɪ)ənt|
[ad. L. conscient-em, pr. pple. of conscīre to be conscious. Also in F. (19th c.).]
a. Conscious.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. xxiii. §12 As if he were consciente to himselfe that he had played his parte wel. 1881J. Darrell in Argosy XXXII. 200 With a morbid cunning only half-conscient of its own motives. 1929R. Bridges Testam. Beauty 6 How small a part of Universal Mind can conscient Reason claim! Ibid. 126 Thru' conscient personality and love of beauty. a1963C. S. Lewis Poems (1964) 96 The thought that moves Within my conscient brain.
b. as n. A conscious being.
1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1852) II. 459, I may believe myself a conscient, not a consciousness..nor a perceptivity, but a perceptive spirit.
Hence † ˈconsciently adv. Obs.
1616Lane Sqr.'s Tale 208 And that the traiter conscientlie shall feele. |