Sçī'en-tĭf'ic, a.

a. [Fr. scientifique, It. scientifico, Sp. cientifico, from Lat. scientia, science, and facere, to make.] Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of science; used in science; evincing profound and systematic knowledge; as, a scientific arrangement of fossils; a scientific physician.

Bossuet is as scientific in the structure of his sentences. Landor.