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escient (s.xii1/3)
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escient (s.xii1/3)

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acient,  ascient,  assent,  assient;  encient,  ensient;  escen,  esciant,  esciaunt;  essient  (escientre,  esseint  Rot Parl1 i 241)  
  FEW:  sciens 11,305b Gdf:  escient 3,396a GdfC: ∅ TL: escïent 3,905 DEAF:  escïent  DMF:  escient  TLF:  escient  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  scientia 2965c

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knowledge, cognizance, wisdom: 
( 1160-74; MS: s.xvii )  Longue Espee, son fiz, estoit de beau jovent, Bien estoit parcreus et de bon escient  Rom de Rou wace I 58.1291
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Frere iert la reine, hom de grant escient  Horn 3594
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  Mes chevalier fud bon e de grant escient  FANT OUP 1854
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1200 )  (God) fist cel e tere [...] Les esteiles i mist par sun grant escient  GUISCH 821
a escient
knowingly, deliberately: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiv1 )  si il le fet a escient, Le pere perdra  Lapid 266.36
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ja a escient ne mentist Ne a home tort ne feist  Brut WACE 3473
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  [...] pensat que jeo, tut a escient, Baillié lui eusse cel argent En lieu d’esteim  S Jean ANTS 1045
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  Tantes foiz ai jeo dit faus ou menti a scient (var. (Bd: c.1300) a mon ascient)  Ancren2 74.20 (var.)
( 1354; MS: c.1360 )  par ma propre volunté sanz destresce nule et tout a escient (var. (C: s.xivex) encient)  Sz Med1 6
♦to one’s knowledge: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  Si en perd (the shepherd) une [berbiz] a escient Ne leist il les altres en aguaut E va quere cele ke faut?  Mirur1 127ra9
♦certainly, assuredly: 
( c.1136-37; MS: s.xiiex )  Ne cunuis nul de mes amis Ne jo ne sai a escient Si jo ai ci un sul parent  GAIMAR1 599
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiim )  E ço ert a bon dreit, jol sai a escient  Horn (O) 5053
(a, al) sun (etc.) escient
to one's knowledge, as one knows (for sure): 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  En la pierre out une escriture, Mien escient ki encor dure  Brut WACE 7178
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Atende cil qui voudra les vers en present; De bone estorie sunt tret al mien escient  Rom Chev ANTS 1321
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Ja nen ad home en la crestienté, Men escientre, ne en la bataille Dé, [...] Ne l’ocesisse  Ch Guill 1468
( 1267; MS: c.1300 )  plus sustenent la maene gent Les povres ke li riche, mien escient  Lum Lais ANTS 3960
( 1391 )  jeo ay esté un leal servant a eux a mon assent  Test Ebor i 161
♦to the best of one's knowledge: 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiii1 )  Mun escient dirra vertez  S Brend (D) 14
( c.1256; MS: s.xiii2 )  Or est acumplie, A men escient, La pleinte Jeremie  Pol Songs 42.2
( 1297 )  a lur poer e a lur ascient taxerount les biens a prodeshomes du reaume  Crisis 96.91
♦deliberately, knowingly: 
( c.1141; MS: s.xiii4/4 ) Tut a lur escient Ferunt faus jugement  Sibile 697
( c.1240; MS: c.1300 )  Volunters freit mun escient Aumone  Mir N-D 89.39
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  [...] ja ne soit fete mensonge a lour escient  BRITT i 30
as escienz (de)
with the knowledge of: 
( c.1292; MS: c.1300 )  il averount pesible seisine as escienz les disseisiz  BRITT i 296
de sun (etc.) escient
with one's knowledge: 
( 1391 )  nulls torts ay fait par le lay de mon assent  Test Ebor i 160
en sun (etc.) escient
to one’s knowledge: 
( c.1282 )  en sun ensient  Bor Cust i 88
od sun (etc.) dreit escient
advisedly: 
( c.1170; MS: s.xiiiex )  Ja muiller ne prendrai od mun dreit escient  Horn 3669
par sun (etc.) escient
in one's opinion: 
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  N’i ad nul kil desdie par le mien escient  FANT OUP 311
sanz escient
without any trickery (?): 
( MS: c.1310 )  serrount chargé a dire la verité saunz escient  Nov Narr 163
sanz escient de
unbeknownst to, without the knowledge, awareness of: 
( c.1380; MS: s.xiv4/4 )  moi voilliez d’ascune chose eider sanz escient de mon piere (Latin: meo patre nescio)  SAMPS1 391
( c.1383; MS: s.xivex )  q’elle moi mande ascune quantitee (=of money) sanz escient de mon dist piere  SAMPS1 403

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scient1 
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