Chapter Connubial to Consecrate of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

3. The estimate or determination of conscience; conviction or right or duty.

Conscience supposes the existence of some such [i.e., moral] faculty, and properly signifies our consciousness of having acted agreeably or contrary to its directions.
Adam Smith.

4. Tenderness of feeling; pity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Conscience clause, a clause in a general law exempting persons whose religious scruples forbid compliance therewith, — as from taking judicial oaths, rendering military service, etc. — Conscience money, stolen or wrongfully acquired money that is voluntarily restored to the rightful possessor. Such money paid into the United States treasury by unknown debtors is called the Conscience fund. — Court of Conscience, a court established for the recovery of small debts, in London and other trading cities and districts. [Eng.] Blackstone. — In conscience, In all conscience, in deference or obedience to conscience or reason; in reason; reasonably. "This is enough in conscience." Howell. "Half a dozen fools are, in all conscience, as many as you should require." Swift. — To make conscience of, To make a matter of conscience, to act according to the dictates of conscience concerning or to scruple to act contrary to its dictates.

Conscienced
(Con"scienced) a. Having a conscience. [R.] "Soft-conscienced men." Shak.

Conscienceless
(Con"science*less), a. Without conscience; indifferent to conscience; unscrupulous.

Conscienceless and wicked patrons.
Hookre.

Conscient
(Con"scient) a. [L. consciens, -entis, p. pr.] Conscious. [R.] Bacon.

Conscientious
(Con`sci*en"tious) a. [Cf. F. consciencieux, LL. conscientiosus.]

1. Influenced by conscience; governed by a strict regard to the dictates of conscience, or by the known or supposed rules of right and wrong; — said of a person.

The advice of wise and conscientious men.
Prescott.

2. Characterized by a regard to conscience; conformed to the dictates of conscience; — said of actions.

A holy and conscientious course.
Abp. Tillotson.

Syn. — Scrupulous; exact; faithful; just; upright.

Conscientiously
(Con`sci*en"tious*ly) adv. In a conscientious manner; as a matter of conscience; hence; faithfully; accurately; completely.

Conscientiousness
(Con`sci*en"tious*ness), n. The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience.

Conscionable
(Con"scion*a*ble) a. [Irregularly formed fr. conscience.] Governed by, or according to, conscience; reasonable; just.

Let my debtors have conscionable satisfaction.
Sir H. Wotton.

Conscionableness
(Con"scion*a*ble*ness), n. The quality of being conscionable; reasonableness. Johnson.

Conscionably
(Con"scion*a*bly), adv. Reasonably; justly.

Conscious
(Con"scious) a. [L. conscius; con- + scire to know. See Conscience.]

1. Possessing the faculty of knowing one's own thoughts or mental operations.

Some are thinking or conscious beings, or have a power of thought.
I. Watts.