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conscient

conscient adjective: conscious; aware.

Adjective

conscient (comparative more conscient, superlative most conscient)

  1. (obsolete) conscious; aware
    • As we see in Augustus Cæsar, (who was rather diverse from his uncle, than inferior in virtue,) how when he died, he desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite, as if he were conscient to himself that he had played his part well upon the stage.1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas...
    • In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom.1893, Charles Letourneau, Sociology Based Upon Ethnography, page 552

Forms of conscient

comparativemore conscient
superlativemost conscient

Origin of conscient

Borrowed from Latin consciens, conscientis, present participle.

Words formed from conscient

Questions about conscient

What does conscient mean?
Conscient means conscious; aware.
What part of speech is conscient?
Conscient is an adjective.

Words near conscient in the dictionary

  1. consciencewise
  2. consciencious
  3. consciencism
  4. consciencist
  5. consciencists
  6. conscient
  7. conscientiology
  8. conscientious
  9. conscientious objection
  10. conscientious objections
  11. conscientious objector

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