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Knowing; having knowledge. "Brutes may be and are scious." Coleridge.

g the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. I. Watts.

In a conscious manner; with knowledge of one's own mental operations or actions.

The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or "ego" of its acts and affections; -- in other words, the self- affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that thes…

Unconscious. [Obs.]

Loose; lascivious. [Obs.] "To depaint lascious wantonness." Holland.

ery grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich. And raisins keep their luscious, native taste. Dryden.

Having much or varied knowledge. [Obs.]

All-knowing. [Obs.] Hakewill.

Excessively luscious.

Of or pertaining to a state before consciousness.

Foreknowing; having foreknowledge; as, prescious of ills. [R.] Dryden.

Conscious of one's acts or state as belonging to, or originating in, one's self. "My self-conscious worth." Dryden.

The quality or state of being self-conscious.

Half conscious; imperfectly conscious. De Quincey.

Occurring without the possibility or the fact of an attendant consciousness; -- said of states of the soul.

The state or quality of being subconscious; a state of mind in which perception and other mental processes occur without distinct consciousness.

Not conscious; having no consciousness or power of mental perception; without cerebral appreciation; hence, not knowing or regarding; ignorant; as, an unconscious man. Cowper.

To destroy the self-possession of; to confuse or confound, as by exciting suddenly a consciousness of guilt, mistake, or inferiority; to put to shame; to disconcert; to discomfit. Abashed, the devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is. Milton. He was a man whom no check could abash. Macaulay.

ul, etc., are agglutinative languages. R. Morris. Agglutinative languages preserve the consciousness of their roots. Max Müller.