Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • All-knowing; omniscient.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete All-knowing.

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  • adjective obsolete omniscient; all-knowing

Etymologies

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Latin omniscius.

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Examples

  • [126] Fabius terms him, and painful omniscious philosopher, that writ so excellently and admirably well, could not please all parties, or escape censure.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • I should here except some Cynics, Menippus, Diogenes, that Theban Crates; or to descend to these times, that omniscious, only wise fraternity

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • During the entire period of her absence the omniscious Simeon, with a mysterious, and even somewhat proud air, managed to inform

    Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

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