CONSCIOUS, a. 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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