Science

Science , noun

[French, from Latin scientia, from sciens, -entis, present participle of scire to know. Compare Conscience, Conscious, Nice.]

Knowledge; knowledge of principles and causes; ascertained truth of facts.

If we conceive God's sight or science, before the creation, to be extended to all and every part of the world, seeing everything as it is,... his science or sight from all eternity lays no necessity on anything to come to pass. — Hammond

Shakespeare's deep and accurate science in mental philosophy. — Coleridge

Accumulated and established knowledge, which has been systematized and formulated with reference to the discovery of general truths or the operation of general laws; knowledge classified and made available in work, life, or the search for truth; comprehensive, profound, or philosophical knowledge.

All this new science that men lere [teach]. — Chaucer

Science is... a complement of cognitions, having, in point of form, the character of logical perfection, and in point of matter, the character of real truth. — Sir W. Hamilton

Especially, such knowledge when it relates to the physical world and its phenomena, the nature, constitution, and forces of matter, the qualities and functions of living tissues, etc.; -- called also natural science, and physical science.

Voltaire hardly left a single corner of the field entirely unexplored in science, poetry, history, philosophy. — J. Morley

Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind.

Good sense, which only is the gift of Heaven, And though no science, fairly worth the seven. — Pope

The ancients reckoned seven sciences, namely, grammar, rhetoric, logic, arithmetic, music, geometry, and astronomy; -- the first three being included in the Trivium, the remaining four in the Quadrivium.

Art, skill, or expertness, regarded as the result of knowledge of laws and principles.

His science, coolness, and great strength. — G. A. Lawrence

Science is applied or pure. Applied science is a knowledge of facts, events, or phenomena, as explained, accounted for, or produced, by means of powers, causes, or laws. Pure science is the knowledge of these powers, causes, or laws, considered apart, or as pure from all applications. Both these terms have a similar and special signification when applied to the science of quantity; as, the applied and pure mathematics. Exact science is knowledge so systematized that prediction and verification, by measurement, experiment, observation, etc., are possible. The mathematical and physical sciences are called the exact sciences.

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Comparative sciences or Inductive sciences , See under Comparative, and Inductive.

Science , transitive verb

To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct. [Rare] — Francis