conscientadj.n.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Aaa4^v As if hee were consciente to himselfe that he had played his parte wel. View more context for this quotation

1660 T. Ford Foenestra in Pectore 100 in Virtus Rediviva To have such a conscient judge and witnesse, would almost imitate the pleasure that some in the thought of an all-knowing Deity, can in any mis-construed action solace themselves against the opinion of the world.

1829 Correspondent 5 296 It is now that conscient actions of his nerves arise; it is now that he repents; it is now that he is in the sorrowing stage of religion.

1881 Argosy 32 200 With a morbid cunning only half-conscient of its own motives.

1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty 6 How small a part of Universal Mind can conscient Reason claim!

a1963 C. S. Lewis Poems (1964) 96 The thought that moves Within my conscient brain.

1989 I. Murdoch Message to Planet (1990) i. 28 She tried not to think too much about the terribly mystery which was to be enacted, the extinction of a conscient being.

a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1805) VII. xxii. 21 I may believe myself a conscient, not a consciousness..nor a perceptivity, but a perceptive spirit.

1822 G. Darley Errors of Ecstasie 12 If, then, God is—and else, we, conscients, are not—The question's double-tongued.

1916 M. W. Artois tr. Yoritomo-Tashi Timidity x. 158 Would it not be inconvenient to the timid to take refuge in the will of another instead of thinking for himself? No, not if the mentor be a conscient and a wise man.

a1951 A. Ghose Isha Upanishad (2004) i. 42 In delight of Brahman there is an Enjoyer of delight, in consciousness of Brahman a Conscient, in existence of Brahman an Existent.