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==Origins==

==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.]  

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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Bacon Bacon]); but It. has conscio privy, accessary, [[guilty]], from 16th c.]  

==Definitions==

==Definitions==

*1. Knowing, or sharing the [[knowledge]] of anything, together with another; privy to anything with another.

*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’.)

*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 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Jonson Ben Jonson]. Frequent in the [[Latin]] poets: with 1667, cf. [https://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.]

*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.

*4. a. Hence, in same sense, without to oneself.

*11. Having a conscience; conscientious. rare.

*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.

*12. Appended to ns. forming adjs. with the sense ‘conscious of{em}, aware of{em}’; as CLASS-CONSCIOUS, COLOUR-CONSCIOUS, etc.