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Webster 1913 Edition

Conscious

Con′scious

,
Adj.
[L.
conscius
;
con-
+
scire
to know. See
Conscience
.]
1.
Possessing the faculty of knowing one’s own thoughts or mental operations.
Some are thinking or
conscious
beings, or have a power of thought.
I. Watts.
2.
Possessing knowledge, whether by internal, conscious experience or by external observation; cognizant; aware; sensible.
Her
conscious
heart imputed suspicion where none could have been felt.
Hawthorne.
The man who breathes most healthilly is least
conscious
of his own breathing.
De Quincey.
3.
Made the object of consciousness; known to one's self;
as,
conscious
guilt
.
Syn. – Aware; apprised; sensible; felt; known.

Webster 1828 Edition

Conscious

CONSCIOUS

,
Adj.
[L.]
1.
Possessing the faculty or power of knowing ones own thoughts or mental operations. Thus, man is a conscious being.
2.
Knowing from memory, or without extraneous information; as, I am not conscious of the fact.
The damsel than to Tancred sent, who, conscious of the occasion, feared the event.
3.
Knowing by conscience, or internal perception or persuasion; as, I am not conscious of having given any offense. Sometimes followed by to; as, I am not conscious to myself.
Aeneas only, conscious to the sign, presaged the event. So we say, conscious of innocence, or of ignorance, or of a crime.

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