conscient

conscious; aware

Adjective

  1. conscious; aware
    • As we see in Augustus Cæsar, (who was rather diverse from his uncle, than inferior in virtue,) how when he died, he desired his friends about him to give him a plaudite, as if he were conscient to himself that he had...
    • In a word, the embryology and the taxinomy of the animal kinds, enlightened by the doctrine of transformism, show to us the slow acquisition of conscient life in the animal kingdom. - 1893, Charles Letourneau, Sociology...

Origin

Borrowed from Latin consciens, conscientis, present participle.

Forms

more conscient most conscient

Related

sentient

Derived

conscientious conscientize unconscient