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scient, a. and n.|ˈsaɪənt|
[ad. L. scient-em, pr. pple. of scīre to know.]
A. adj. Having science, knowledge, or skill. Now rare.
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 27 The clerk that I of tolde, Which was ful fayne feithful counsel to make, For he was scient, expert, and ful bolde. 1597J. King On Jonas (1618) 156 Of what people? The most scient and skilfull in the seruice of God. 1626Cornwallis Disc. Prince Henry (1641) 7 To this so rare a disposition, which being by a Prince entertained, cannot but make him..scient of the Offices appertaining to his high estate,..is to be added [etc.]. 1798Landor Gebir v. Wks. 1846 II. 498 Together these her scient hand combined and more she added. 1820T. G. Wainewright Ess. & Crit. (1880) 24 Watching with scient eye the number of aureate particles.
B. n. A man of science, scientist. rare.
1889Harper's Mag. Feb. 383/1 Philosophers, historians, and scients. 1894Ibis Oct. 555 The contributors to the Tromsö Museum's Annual may be called ‘scients’ or ‘savants’, but, please, Mr. Cocks, not ‘scientists’. |