Meanings
- not comparableobsoleteOmniscient; all-knowing.
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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.
1627, G[eorge] 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
Origin
- Latinomniscius
- Englishomniscious
Learned borrowing from Latin omniscius.
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