scient

Knowing; aware; knowledgeable.

Adjective

  1. Knowing; aware; knowledgeable.
    • …referring them to ſome ſuch of his principal Officers as he thought to be the moſt ſcient in Matters of that Nature… - 1626, Sir Charles Cornwallis, A Discourse of the most illustrious Prince Henry, late Prince of...

Origin

From Latin sciēns (“knowing”), from sciō (“know”).

Forms

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Related

science

Noun

  1. Obsolete spelling of scion.

Origin

See scion.