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scien

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of scion.

alt-of, obsolete

Examples

“1658: John Milton, To the Evangelick Cities of the Switzers; reprinted in:”
“It ſeems to be only in your Power, next under God, to prevent⟳ the extirpation of this moſt antient Scien of the purer Religion, in theſe remainders of the Primitive Believers; whoſe preſervation, now reduc’d to the very brink of utter ruin, if you neglect⟳, beware that the next Turn⟳ be not your own⟳.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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