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sciential en · ADJ

Etymology

Latin scientia (“knowledge”) + suffix -al.

Meanings

1. Of or pertaining to science or to knowledge.
   • One of the wisest of uninspired men has not hesitated to declare the dog a great mystery, on account of this dawning of a moral nature unaccompanied by any the least evidence of reason, in whichever of the two senses we interpret the word—whether as the practical reason, that is, the power of proposing an ultimate end, the determinability of the Will by ideas; or as the sciential reason, that is, the faculty of concluding universal and necessary truths from particular and contingent appearances. 1826, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “On Instinct in Connection with the Understanding (in Comment on Aphorism IX)”, in Aids to Reflection:
   • But first low Reverence don, as to the power That dwelt within, whose presence had infus’d Into the plant sciential sap 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
2. Knowledgeable.

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