sciatica (siatika)

Sir, he has born the name of a Nether land Souldier, till he ran away from his Colours, and was taken lame with lying in the Fields by a Sciatica: I mean, Sir, the Strap a do. IMG:content-0302.png:[blocks in formation] science comprehension or understanding of facts or principles. For God seith hit hym-self "shal neuere good appel Thorw no sotel science on sour stock growe." Piers Plowman (C), xi. 207. Mercurie loveth wysdam and science , And Venus loveth ryot and dispence. Chaucer , Prol. to Wife of Bath's Tale, 1. 699. As rose is aboue al floures most fine, So is science most digne of worthyne e. Rom. of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), Int., 1. 107. His reputation was early spread throughout Europe, on account of his general science . Ticknor , Span. Lit., I. 33. Absolute beginnings are beyond the pale of science. J. Ward, Encyc. Brit., XX. 45. 2. Knowledge gained by systematic observation, experiment, and reasoning; knowledge coördinated, arranged, and systematized; also, the prosecution of truth as thus known, both in the abstract and as a historical development. Since all phenomena which have been sufficiently examined are found to take place with regularity, each having certain fixed conditions, positive and negative, on the occurrence of which it invariably happens, mankind have been able to ascertain... the conditions of the occurrence of many phenomena; and the progre of science mainly consists in ascertaining these conditions. J. S. Mill. Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity in the most remote parts. Emerson, Misc., p. 75. In science you must not talk before you know. In art you must not talk before you do. In literature you must not talk before you think. Science. The knowledge of things, whether Ideal or Substantial. Art. - The modification of Substantial things by our Substantial Power. Literature. The modification of Ideal things by our Ideal Ruskin, The Eagle's Nest (1872), § 3. Power. The work of the true man of Science is a perpetual striving after a better and closer knowledge of the planet on which his lot is cast, and of the universe in the vastne of which that planet is lost. J. N. Lockyer, Spec. Anal., p. 1. 5397 ... This very deuice [ferro et flamm a] a certaine base man of England being knowen euen at that time a bricklayer or mason by his science gaue for his crest. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 119. Absolute science, knowledge of things in themselves. -Active science.' Same as practical science. - Applied science, a science when its laws are employed and exemplified in dealing with concrete phenomena, as opposed to pure science, as mathematics, when it treats of laws or general statements apart from particular instances. The term pure science is also applied to a science built on self-evident truths, and thus comprehends mathematical science, as opposed to natural or physical science, which rests on observation and experiment. - Articulation of a science. See articulation . - Direct science, a science conversant with objects, as contradistinguished from one conversant with the modes of knowing objects. - Disputative science, eristic science, logic. - Historical science, a science whose function it is to record facts, or events that have actually occurred. - Inductive science. See inductive . Liberal science, a science cultivated from love of knowledge, and not as a means of livelihood. - Lucrative science, a science cultivated as a means of living, as law, medicine, theology, etc. - Material science. See material . - Moral science, the science of all mental phenomena, or, in a narrower sense, the same as moral philosophy or ethics . Natural science. See natural. Occult sciences. See occult . - Physical science. See applied science , above. - Political, real, reflex, sanitary science. See the adjectives. - Practical science, a science which teaches how to do something useful.Profe ional science. Same as lucrative science . -Simple science. Same as direct science. - Speculative science, a science which merely satisfies scientific curiosity. - The dismal science, political economy. [Humorous.]- The exact sciences, the mathematical sciences. -The gay sciencet. See gay1 . - The science, the art of boxing; pugilism. [Slang.] Up to that time he had never been aware that he had the least notion of the science. Dickens , Pickwick, xlix. The seven liberal sciencest, grammar, logic, and rhetoric, constituting the "trivium," with arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy, constituting the "quadrivium." Also called the seven arts. The two Apollinarii were fain, as a man may say, to coin all the seven liberal sciences out of the Bible. Milton , Areopagitica, =Syn. 3 and 4. Art, Science. See art2. ii. 3. Knowledge regarding any special group of objects, coördinated, arranged, and systematized; what is known concerning a subject, sys- Versed; instrücted; skilled; learned; trained. sciencedt (si'enst), a. [ Deep scienc'd in the mazy lore Of mad philosophy. tematically arranged; a branch of knowledge: as, the science of botany, botany, of astronomy, of etymology, of metaphysics; mental science; physical science; in a narrow sense, one of the phys i- Scienoides, n. pl. cal sciences, as distinguished from mathematics, metaphysics, etc. In reference to their degree of specialization, the sciences may be arranged as follows. (A) Mathematics, the study of the relations of the parts of hypothetical constructions, involving no observation of facts, but only of the creations of our own minds, having two branches-(1) pure mathematics, where the suppositions are arbitrary, and (2) applied mathematics, where the hypotheses are simplifications of real facts and branching again into (a) mathematical philosophy, as the theory of probabilities, etc., (b) mathematical physics, as analytical mechanics, etc., and (c) mathematical psychics, as political economy, etc. (B) Philosophy, the examination and logical analysis of the general body of fact-a science which both in reason and in history precedes succe ful dealing with special elements of the universe branching into (1) logic and (2) metaphysics. (C) Nomology, the science of the most general laws or uniformities, having two main branches-(1) psychology and (2) general physics, (D) Chemistry, the determination of physical constants, and the study of the different kinds of matter in which these constants differ. ( E ) Biology, the study of a peculiar cla of substances, the protoplasms, and of the kinds of organisms into which they grow. (F) Sciences of organizations of organisms, embracing (1) physiology, the science of the working of physical structures of organs, and (2) sociology, the science of psychical unions, especially modes of human society, including ethics, linguistics, politics, etc. (G) Descriptions and explanations of individual objects or collections, divided into (1) cos mology, embracing astronomy, geognosy, etc., and (2) ас counts of human matters, as statistics, history, biography, IMG:content-0303.png:[blocks in formation] Pausanias (trans.), quoted in Harrison and Verrall, [Ancient Athens, p. cv. 51. Trade; occupation. The more laboursome sciences be committed to the men. For the most part, every man is brought up in his father's Sir T. More, Utopia (tr. by Robinson), ii. 4. craft, P. Francis, tr. of Horace's Odes, i. 34. See Sciænidæ . scient (si'ent), a. [L. scien (t-)s, knowing, skilled, ppr. of scire , know, understand, perceive, discern, have knowledge or skill, sci , separate, discern, = Teut. ✔ ski in skill , etc.: see skill . From the L. scire are also ult. E. science, sciolist , sciolous , etc., conscience, conscious, inscient , nescient , prescient , inscience , nes cience, prescience, adscititious, the second element of plebiscite , etc.) Skilful; knowing. [Rare.] Imp . Dict . scienter (si-en'ter), adv. [L., knowingly, intentionally, His light sciential is, and, past mere nature, Can salve the rude defects of every creature. B. Jonson , Masque of Blackne . Those sciential rules which are the implements of in- struct i on. Milton , Tetrachord on. 2. Skilful; knowing; characterized by accurate knowledge based on observation and inference. Not one hour old, yet of sciential brain To unperplex bli from its neighbor pain. Keats , Lamia, i. 192.