scientician (sient is han)

[ = The reason why scienticians have neglected to investigate the laws of the currents thoroughly, and to discover the truth concerning them, is that they have not regarded them as of much importance. Science , V. 142. scientific (si-en-tif'ik), si-en-tif'ik), a. [ sci entifique ntifique = Sp. científico Pg. It. scient i fico , scientific us , pertaining * scientific us , pertaining to science, lit. 'making scient or knowing,',' scien (t-)s, ppr. of scire , know, + -ficus , facere , make: see scient and -fic . The word is now used instead of sciential , the proper adj. from science .] 1. Concerned with the acquisition of accurate and systematic knowledge of principles by observation and deduction: as, scientific investigation. No man who first trafficks into a foreign country has any scient if ick evidence that there is such a country but by report, which can produce no more than a moral certainty: that is, a very high probability, and such as there can be no reason to except against. South. (Johnson.) Scilla 2. Of or pertaining to, treating of, or used in science: as, scientific works; scientific instruments; scientific nomenclature. Voyages and travels, when not obscured by scientific observations, are always delightful to youthful curiosity. V. Knox, E ays, xiv. ( Richardson .) 3. Versed in science; guided by the principles of science, and not by empiricism or mere quackery; hence, learned; skilful: as, a scientific physician. Bo uet is as scientific in the structure of his sentences. Landor. 4. According to the rules or principles of science; hence, systematic; accurate; nice: as, a scientific arrangement of fo ils. Such cool, judicious, scientific atrocity seemed rather to belong to a fiend than to the most depraved of men. Macaulay , Machi a vell i. The scientific treatment of the facts of consciousne can never be, to any satisfactory extent, accomplished by introspection alone. G. T. Ladd, Physiol. Psychology, Int., p. 10. Literary and Scientific Institutions Act. See institution.-Scientific experience, relatively complete experience about any cla of objects, obtained by systematic research. - Scientific knowledge, knowledge of the causes, conditions, and general characters of cla es of things. Scientific knowledge , even in the most modest persons, has mingled with it a something which partakes of insolence. O. W. Holmes, Autocrat, iii. Scientific logic, logic properly speaking; the knowledge of the theory of reasoning and of thinking in general, as opposed to natural skill and subtlety. - Scientific method. See method. - Scientific psychology. See psychol ogy.