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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or employing the methodology of science.

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  • Flinders wrote to the French Minister of the Treasury, Barbe-Marbois, urging him to intercede, and to the Comte de Fleurieu, one of the most influential men in French scientific circles, who was particularly well informed concerning Australian exploration. —  The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
  • He had sought advice from the bronze man in regard to a part of the formula Doc Savage was known as a scientific genius. —  085 - The Spotted Men
  • The book is a collection of facts, classified as a scientific writer would arrange the sections and subsections of his subject. —  The Project Gutenberg eBook of Jerome Cardan, by W.G. Waters.
  • People don't believe because they don't see it as a scientific issue, but as a political one. —  RealClimate
  • The networks don't look at global warming as a scientific issue but as a news story. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
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  1. Medieval Latin scientificus, producing knowledge : Latin scientia, knowledge; see science + Latin -ficus, -fic.

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  1. from Old French (and F.) scientifique = Spanish científico = Portuguese Italian scientifico, from New Latin *scientificus, pertaining to science, literally ‘making scient or knowing,’ from Latin scien (t -)s, present participle of scire, know, + -ficus, from facere, make: see scient and -fic. The word is now used instead of sciential, the proper adjective from science.
 

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