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sciential

[ sahy-en-shuhl ]

adjective

  1. having knowledge.
  2. of or relating to science or knowledge.


sciential

/ ²õ²¹ÉªËˆÉ›²Ôʃə±ô /

adjective

  1. of or relating to science
  2. skilful or knowledgeable
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of sciential1

1425–75; late Middle English < Medieval Latin ²õ³¦¾±±ð²Ô³Ù¾±Äå±ô¾±²õ, equivalent to scienti ( a ) science + -Äå±ô¾±²õ -al 1
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Example Sentences

If Mr. Wells would be content with some such "bright sciential idolatry," I would willingly declare myself a co-idolater.

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I seem to inhale learning, walking amid their foliage; and the odor of their old moth-scented coverings is fragrant as the first bloom of those sciential apples which grew amid the happy orchard.—Lamb.

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In 1656, an Englishman, named Jackson, published a work, entitled the Scholar's Sciential Cards, in which he proposed to teach reading, spelling, grammar, writing, and arithmetic, with various arts and sciences, by playing-cards; premising that the learner was well grounded in all the games played at the period.

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So saying, from the tree her step she turned; But first low reverence done, as to the Power That dwelt within, whose presence had infused Into the plant sciential sap, derived From nectar, drink of Gods.

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Introduce but the least of real as opposed to 'ideal', the least speck of positive existence, even though it were but the mote in a sun beam, into the sciential 'contemplamen' or theorem, and it ceases to be science.

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