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==Origins==
f. L. consci-us [[knowing]] something with others, knowing in oneself, privy to, conscious + -OUS. L. consci-us f. con- together + sci- knowing, as in scire to know: cf. nescius unknowing, præscius foreknowing. There is no such word in F., which uses conscient in some of the senses (as did also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bacon Bacon]); but It. has conscio privy, accessary, [[guilty]], from 16th c.]
==Definitions==
*1. Knowing, or sharing the [[knowledge]] of anything, together with another; privy to anything with another.
*2. fig. Attributed to inanimate [[things]] as privy to, sharing in, or witnesses of [[human]] [[action]]s or secrets. Chiefly poet. (The earliest recorded use - the [[word]] being one of those ridiculed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson Ben Jonson]. Frequent in the [[Latin]] poets: with 1667, cf. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid Ovid] ‘quorum non conscia sola est’.)
*3. conscious to oneself (of anything, that, etc.): having the witness of one's own [[judgement]] or [[feelings]], having the witness within oneself, knowing within oneself, inwardly sensible or aware. [L. conscius sibi alicujus rei, de aliqua re, id esse.]
*4. a. Hence, in same sense, without to oneself.
:b. Having [[guilty]] [[knowledge]] (of anything); absol. inwardly sensible of wrong-doing, [[guilty]].
*5. conscious to (a [[thing]]): sharing in the [[knowledge]] of, having cognizance of, being a witness to; mentally alive or awake to; in a bad sense, privy to. [L. conscius alicui rei.] Obs.
*6. Having internal [[perception]] or [[consciousness]]: a. of a [[fact]].
:b. (in Philos.) of one's sensations, [[feelings]], [[thoughts]], etc.
:c. of external objects. poet.
:d. with subord. clause.
:e. absol. Knowing, witting, well aware. poet.
:f. absol. with the: the conscious [[mind]].
*7. a. Endowed with the faculty of [[consciousness]]; characterized by the [[presence]] of consciousness. Said of [[persons]] and their attributes.
:b. Having one's mental faculties actually in an active and waking [[state]].
*8. Aware of what one is doing or [[intend]]ing to do; having a [[purpose]] and intention in one's [[action]]s. Said of agents and their actions, etc.
*9. Having one's thoughts and attention unduly centred in one's own [[personality]]; and hence, apt to imagine that one is the object of observation by others; SELF-CONSCIOUS. Of personal bearing, actions, etc.: Displaying such preoccupation.
*10. transf. Of [[things]]:
:a. Objective or present to [[consciousness]]; known to oneself, felt, sensible.
:b. Aware of itself, aware of its own existence.
*11. Having a conscience; conscientious. rare.
*12. Appended to ns. forming adjs. with the sense ‘conscious of{em}, aware of{em}’; as CLASS-CONSCIOUS, COLOUR-CONSCIOUS, etc.
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==Origins==
f. L. consci-us [[knowing]] something with others, knowing in oneself, privy to, conscious + -OUS. L. consci-us f. con- together + sci- knowing, as in scire to know: cf. nescius unknowing, præscius foreknowing. There is no such word in F., which uses conscient in some of the senses (as did also [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bacon Bacon]); but It. has conscio privy, accessary, [[guilty]], from 16th c.]
==Definitions==
*1. Knowing, or sharing the [[knowledge]] of anything, together with another; privy to anything with another.
*2. fig. Attributed to inanimate [[things]] as privy to, sharing in, or witnesses of [[human]] [[action]]s or secrets. Chiefly poet. (The earliest recorded use - the [[word]] being one of those ridiculed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson Ben Jonson]. Frequent in the [[Latin]] poets: with 1667, cf. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovid Ovid] ‘quorum non conscia sola est’.)
*3. conscious to oneself (of anything, that, etc.): having the witness of one's own [[judgement]] or [[feelings]], having the witness within oneself, knowing within oneself, inwardly sensible or aware. [L. conscius sibi alicujus rei, de aliqua re, id esse.]
*4. a. Hence, in same sense, without to oneself.
:b. Having [[guilty]] [[knowledge]] (of anything); absol. inwardly sensible of wrong-doing, [[guilty]].
*5. conscious to (a [[thing]]): sharing in the [[knowledge]] of, having cognizance of, being a witness to; mentally alive or awake to; in a bad sense, privy to. [L. conscius alicui rei.] Obs.
*6. Having internal [[perception]] or [[consciousness]]: a. of a [[fact]].
:b. (in Philos.) of one's sensations, [[feelings]], [[thoughts]], etc.
:c. of external objects. poet.
:d. with subord. clause.
:e. absol. Knowing, witting, well aware. poet.
:f. absol. with the: the conscious [[mind]].
*7. a. Endowed with the faculty of [[consciousness]]; characterized by the [[presence]] of consciousness. Said of [[persons]] and their attributes.
:b. Having one's mental faculties actually in an active and waking [[state]].
*8. Aware of what one is doing or [[intend]]ing to do; having a [[purpose]] and intention in one's [[action]]s. Said of agents and their actions, etc.
*9. Having one's thoughts and attention unduly centred in one's own [[personality]]; and hence, apt to imagine that one is the object of observation by others; SELF-CONSCIOUS. Of personal bearing, actions, etc.: Displaying such preoccupation.
*10. transf. Of [[things]]:
:a. Objective or present to [[consciousness]]; known to oneself, felt, sensible.
:b. Aware of itself, aware of its own existence.
*11. Having a conscience; conscientious. rare.
*12. Appended to ns. forming adjs. with the sense ‘conscious of{em}, aware of{em}’; as CLASS-CONSCIOUS, COLOUR-CONSCIOUS, etc.
[[Category: General Reference]]
[[Category: Philosophy]]
[[Category: Psychology]]