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Knowing; skillful. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Knowingly; willfully. Bouvier.

Pertaining to, or producing, science. [R.] Milton.

Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as, scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific observations.

Scientific. Locke.

In a scientific manner; according to the rules or principles of science. It is easier to believe than to be scientifically instructed. Locke.

One learned in science; a scientific investigator; one devoted to scientific study; a savant. [Recent]

A believer in Christian Science; one who practices its teachings.

Conscious. [R.] Bacon.

nown or supposed rules of right and wrong; -- said of a person. The advice of wise and conscientious men. Prescott.

In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.

The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.

Having knowledge or insight; intelligent. [R.] Gaze on, with inscient vision, toward the sun. Mrs. Browning.

Having universal knowledge; knowing all things; infinitely knowing or wise; as, the omniscient God. -- Om*nis"cient*ly, adv. For what can scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Omniscient Milton.

seeing; conscious beforehand. Pope. Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event. Bacon.

With presciense or foresight.

her higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

A solemn declaration made under the penalties of perjury, by persons who conscientiously decline taking an oath, which declaration is in law equivalent to an oath. Bouvier.

Of no particular kind or character; anomalous. Scientific treatises . . . are not seldom rude and amorphous in style. Hare. -- A*mor"phous*ly, adv. -- A*mor"phous*ness, n.

The scientific or systematic study of honey bees.