单词 | consciential |
释义 | conscientialadj. Chiefly technical. 1. Of or relating to conscience or a sense of what is right. ΘΚΠ society > morality > [adjective] > of or relating to conscience consciential?1589 conscientious1603 ?1589 H. Barrow in E. Arber Introd. Sketch Martin Marprelate Controv. (1895) i. 45 Ther was a difference betwixt thinges civill and Conscientiall. 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 39 The others conscientiall-content Doth feast his Fates, and ciuillize their rage. 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (ii. 19) 1013 Now liberty is fourefold; Corporall, Conscientiall, Spirituall, and Sensuall. 1642 J. Taylor Dis. of Times A2v A medicine for the Times..had excellent Compounds, but onely it was a little too much troubled with the stinging astimulation of conscientiall Physicke. 1797 tr. E. de Vattel Law Nations (new ed.) Pref. p. xvi There can be no reason why the system..should not be called the Voluntary Law of nations, in contradistinction to the necessary, internal, and consciential law. 1876 J. Bickersteth Grote's Treat. on Moral Ideals 183 Consciential deliberation may be of two kinds; (1) as to the rightness or wrongness of a sort of actions, or..(2) as to the rightness or wrongness of a particular action. 1943 R. Graves Story Marie Powell xii. 151 What were your consciential reasons for avoiding marriage? 2. Of or relating to consciousness or inward knowledge. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > consciousness > [adjective] conscient1605 conscientional1652 conscious1725 consciential1886 1886 J. B. Wentworth Logic of Introspection iv. ix. 436 The Consciential Method admits and explains the Free Facts of Consciousness. 1951 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 64 19 His argument was chiefly negative—the denial that reality is limited to ‘consciential’ terms. Instead. happenings are real when they can be shown to be independent of an experiencing subject. 2008 M. S. de Bianchi Sci., Reality & Consciousness i. 61 What distinguishes a consciousness from the consciential energies it uses to manifest? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1589 |
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