con scienced (konshenst)

[ Sir W. Davenant, Gondibert, ii. 7. I would be understood, not onely an Allower, but an humble Petitioner, that ignorant and tender con scienced Anabaptists may have due time and means of conviction. N. Ward , Simple Cobler, p. 15. consciencele (kon's hens-les), a . [ conscience +-le .] Having no conscience; free from or not marked by conscientious scruples. Consciencele and wicked patrons, of which sort the swarm are too great in the Church of England. Hooker , Eccles. Polity, vii. § 24 (Ord MS.). That has never been paralleled in all the history of your consciencele partisanship. The American, VIII. 346. conscience-smitten (kon's hens-smit"n), a. Smitten by conscience or remorse.