omniscious

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin omniscius.

Adjective

omniscious (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Omniscient; all-knowing.
   • 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:

     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.

Further reading

• “omniscious”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.