omniscious

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin omniscius.

Adjective

omniscious (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) Omniscient; all-knowing.
    • 1627, G H[akewill], “Touching Diverse Artificial Workes and Vsefull Inventions, ”, in An Apologie of the Power and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the World. , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Iohn Lichfield and William Turner, , →OCLC, book III, section 4 (Of the Use and Invention of the Marriners Compasse ), page 265:
      I doubt not but Adam in the ſtate of integrity knevv more than Solomon, and yet I dare not pronounce him omniſcious, that being an attribute, (as is likevviſe Omnipotencie, ubiquity & eternity) individually proper to the Godhead, & incommunicable to any created ſubſtance, though meerely incorporeall, vvhether they bee the damned or the bleſſed ſpirits.

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