a. (sb.) Now rare or Obs. [ad. L. conscient-em, pr. pple. of conscīre to be conscious. Also in F. (19th c.).] Conscious.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., II. xxiii. § 12. As if he were consciente to himselfe that he had played his parte wel.
1881. J. Darrell, in Argosy, XXXII. 200. With a morbid cunning only half-conscient of its own motives.
b. as sb. A conscious being.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), II. 459. I may believe myself a conscient, not a consciousness … nor a perceptivity, but a perceptive spirit.
Hence † Consciently adv. Obs.
1616. Lane, Sqr.’s Tale, 208. And that the traiter conscientlie shall feele.
