scious
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin scius. Compare conscious, science.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
scious (comparative more scious, superlative most scious)
- Having knowledge.
- 1838, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Essay on Faith:
- Brutes may be and are scious.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “scious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)