SCIENTER

scienter

(adverb) (law) deliberately or knowingly

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Adverb

scienter (not comparable)

(legal) deliberately, knowingly

Noun

scienter (uncountable)

(legal) knowledge of one's own illegal acts; intent

Anagrams

• centries, enterics, enticers, in secret, incester, rentices, secretin

Source: Wiktionary


Sci*en"ter, adv. Etym: [L.] (Law)

Definition: Knowingly; willfully. Bouvier.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Word of the Day

4 April 2025

GUILLOTINE

(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”


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Coffee Trivia

Coffee has initially been a food – chewed, not sipped. Early African tribes consume coffee by grinding the berries together, adding some animal fat, and rolling the treats into tiny edible energy balls.

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