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n thoughts or actions; consciousness. [Obs.] The sweetest cordial we receive, at last, Is conscience of our virtuous actions past. Denham.

Having a conscience. [R.] "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.

Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous. Conscienceless and wicked patrons. Hookre.

or in continued pain; to be distressed. "My old bones ache." Shak. The sins that in your conscience ache. Keble.

Admonisher; monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.

aw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience. Heb. x. 22.

; to awake; to wake. [He] is dispatched Already to awaken whom thou nam'st. Cowper. Their consciences are thoroughly awakened. Tillotson.

To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode. The worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. Shak.

ld, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton.

t a courteous serving man conveyed me away, whilst he went to fetch whips, I think, in my conscience, he would have breeched me. Old Play.

by a bribe; to give a bribe to. Neither is he worthy who bribes a man to vote against his conscience. F. W. Robertson.

influence to compliance; to cause to bend or yield by some consideration; as, to buy off conscience. (b) To detach by a consideration given; as, to buy off one from a party. -- To buy out (a) To buy off, or detach from. Shak. (b) To purchase the share or shares of in a stock, fund, or partnership, by which the seller…

eech. "Calm and sinless peace." Milton. "With calm attention." Pope. Such calm old age as conscience pure And self-commanding hearts ensure. Keble.

Fleshy substance or quality; fleshy covering. [Consciences] overgrown with so hard a carnosity. Spelman. The olives, indeed be very small there, and bigger than capers; yet commended they are for their carnosity. Holland.

The science or doctrine of dealing with cases of conscience, of resolving questions of right or wrong in conduct, or determining the lawfulness or unlawfulness of what a man may do by rules and principles drawn from the Scriptures, from the laws of society or the church, or from equity and natural reason; the applicati…

To sear, as the conscience. Jer. Taylor.

Made of cheveril; pliant. [Obs.] A cheveril conscience and a searching wit. Drayton.

nd manners; instructed in arts, learning, and civil manners; refined; cultivated. Sale of conscience and duty in open market is not reconcilable with the present state of civilized society. J. Quincy.

cleared. Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness, of his conscience. T. Fuller.

In an indirect or subordinate manner; indirectly. The will hath force upon the conscience collaterally and indirectly. Jer. Taylor.