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om⋅nis⋅cient

  [om-nish-uhnt]
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–adjective
1. having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things.
–noun
2. an omniscient being.
3. the Omniscient, God.
Origin:
1595–1605; < NL omniscient-, s. of omnisciēns, equiv. to L omni- omni- + scient- knowing; see science

Related forms:
om⋅nis⋅cient⋅ly, adverb
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om·nis·cient   (ŏm-nĭsh'ənt)   
adj.  Having total knowledge; knowing everything: an omniscient deity; the omniscient narrator.
n.  
  1. One having total knowledge.
  2. Omniscient God. Used with the.

[Medieval Latin omnisciēns, omniscient- : Latin omni-, omni- + Latin sciēns, scient-, present participle of scīre, to know; see skei- in Indo-European roots.]
om·nis'cience, om·nis'cien·cy n., om·nis'cient·ly adv.
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Omniscient

Om*nis"cient\, a. [Omni- + L. sciens, -entis, p. pr. of scire to know: cf. F. omniscient. See Science.] Having universal knowledge; knowing all things; infinitely knowing or wise; as, the omniscient God. -- Om*nis"cient*ly, adv.

For what can scape the eye Of God all-seeing, or deceive his heart Omniscient? --Milton.
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