Middle English science / cience stabilizes as Early Modern science.
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science
an organized body or branch of knowledge
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedMiddle English · 14th–15th centuries · general knowledgescience / cience
knowledge, learning, the ability to know, a branch of knowledge
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Knowledge and learning remain broad while an organized branch or body of knowledge becomes a salient application.
Middle English into Early Modern English; the branch-of-knowledge sense is directly witnessed in 1704.
Merriam-Webster Editors · John Harris
established — The 1704 printed witness establishes this historical sense in use; it does not date the sense’s beginning.
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Science — Word HistoryDefinitions and etymology
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents the older knowledge and branch-of-learning range against the modern systematic and natural-science center.
Lexicon technicum: or, an universal English dictionary of arts and sciencesImage [812], left column, SYSTEM entry, “System of Philosophy”; e-rara content image 2867876
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Directly witnesses Science meaning an organized branch of knowledge in Harris’s 1704 English dictionary.
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