omniscious
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin omniscius.
Adjective
omniscious (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Omniscient; all-knowing.
- 1627, G[eorge] H[akewill], “Touching Diverse Artificial Workes and Vsefull Inventions, […]”, in An Apologie of the Povver and Prouidence of God in the Gouernment of the VVorld. […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Iohn Lichfield and VVilliam Turner, […], OCLC 863459859, 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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Further reading
- omniscious in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913