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sciential

sciential adjective: of or pertaining to science or to knowledge.

Adjective

sciential (comparative more sciential, superlative most sciential)

  1. Of or pertaining to science or to knowledge.
    • But first low Reverence don, as to the power
      That dwelt within, whose presence had infus’d
      Into the plant sciential sap1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC...
    • One of the wisest of uninspired men has not hesitated to declare the dog a great mystery, on account of this dawning of a moral nature unaccompanied by any the least evidence of reason, in whichever of the two senses we interpret the word—whether as the practical reason, that is, the power of...1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “On Instinct in Connection with the Understanding (in Comment on Aphorism IX)”, in Aids to Reflection
  2. Knowledgeable.

sciential meaning in Tamil

sciential in Tamil

நுணங்கறிவு சார்ந்த, வேண்டுமென்றே

Forms of sciential

comparativemore sciential
superlativemost sciential

Origin of sciential

Latin scientia (“knowledge”) + suffix -al.

Questions about sciential

What does sciential mean?
Sciential means of or pertaining to science or to knowledge.
What is sciential in Tamil?
Sciential in Tamil is நுணங்கறிவு சார்ந்த, வேண்டுமென்றே. See Sciential meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sciential?
Sciential is an adjective.

Words near sciential in the dictionary

  1. scientasters
  2. scienter
  3. scientess
  4. scientesses
  5. scientia potentia est
  6. sciential
  7. scientian
  8. scientians
  9. scientibook
  10. scientibooks
  11. scientician

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sciential (page history and authors); sciential (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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