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; lnowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts. If we conceive God's or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is, . . . his science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass. Hammond. Shakespeare's deep a…

A system of healing disease of mind and body which teaches that all cause and effect is mental, and that sin, sickness, and death will be destroyed by a full understanding of the Divine Principle of Jesus' teaching and healing. The system was founded by Rev. Mary Baker Glover Eddy, of Concord, N. H., in 1866, and bases…

houghts 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.

Want of knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.]

of knowledge; ignorance; agnosticism. God fetched it about for me, in that absence and nescience of mine. Bp. Hall.

The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God. Dryden.

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.

Want of science or knowledge; ignorance. [Obs.] If that any wight ween a thing to be otherwise than it is, it is not only unscience, but it is deceivable opinion. Chaucer.

in level or line; equally advanced; as, to keep abreast of [or with] the present state of science.

A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.

A society of learned men united for the advancement of the arts and sciences, and literature, or some particular art or science; as, the French Academy; the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; academies of literature and philology.

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

Materia medica; the science of remedies.

Pertaining to the sense of hearing, the organs of hearing, or the science of sounds; auditory. Acoustic duct, the auditory duct, or external passage of the ear. -- Acoustic telegraph, a telegraph making audible signals; a telephone. -- Acoustic vessels, brazen tubes or vessels, shaped like a bell, used in ancient the…

The science of sounds, teaching their nature, phenomena, and laws. Acoustics, then, or the science of sound, is a very considerable branch of physics. Sir J. Herschel.

The science which treats of rays of light, especially of the actinic or chemical rays.

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

The science of gliding and soaring flight.