Cŏn'sciŏŭs, a.

(kŏn'shus, 63), a. [Lat. conscious, from con and scīre, to know. Cf. CONSCIENCE.] 1. Possessing the faculty or power of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations. Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought. Watts. 2. Possessing knowledge, whether by internal conscious experience or external observation. The damsel then to Tancred sent, Who, conscious of the occasion, feared the event. Dryden. Æneas only, conscious to the sign, Presaged th' event. Dryden. 3. Made the object of consciousness; as, conscious guilt. Then bursting forth Afresh with conscious terrors vex me round, That rest or intermission none I find. Milton. Syn. — Aware; apprised; sensible.