inscient

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  1. Endowed with insight or discernment. [Rare.] Gaze on, with inscient vision, toward the sun. Mrs. Browning, Aurora Leigh, ix.
  2. Not knowing; ignorant; unskilful. Coles, 1717.

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  1. from Latin in, in, + scien(t-)s, present participle of scire, know.
  2. = Old French and F. inscient = Portuguese Italian insciente, from Latin inscien(t-)s, not knowing, ignorant, from in- privative + scien(t-)s, knowing, present participle of scire, know: see science.
 

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