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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scientific \Sci`en*tif"ic\, a. [F. scientifique; L. scientia
     science + facere to make.]
     1. Of or pertaining to science; used in science; as,
        scientific principles; scientific apparatus; scientific
        observations.
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     2. Agreeing with, or depending on, the rules or principles of
        science; as, a scientific classification; a scientific
        arrangement of fossils.
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     3. Having a knowledge of science, or of a science; evincing
        science or systematic knowledge; as, a scientific chemist;
        a scientific reasoner; a scientific argument.
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              Bossuet is as scientific in the structure of his
              sentences.                            --Landor.
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     {Scientific method}, the method employed in exact science and
        consisting of: (a) Careful and abundant observation and
        experiment. (b) generalization of the results into
        formulated "Laws" and statements.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scientific
       adj 1: of or relating to the practice of science; "scientific
              journals"
       2: conforming with the principles or methods used in science;
          "a scientific approach" [ant: {unscientific}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  69 Moby Thesaurus words for "scientific":
     close, constant, delicate, detailed, direct, disciplinary,
     down-to-earth, earthy, even, exact, express, faithful, fine,
     hardheaded, inerrable, inerrant, infallible, mathematical,
     matter-of-fact, methodical, meticulous, micrometrically precise,
     microscopic, nice, orderly, painstaking, pinpoint, positivistic,
     practical, practical-minded, pragmatic, precise, rational, realist,
     realistic, reasonable, refined, religious, religiously exact,
     rigid, rigorous, sane, scholarly, scientifically exact,
     scientistic, secular, sensible, severe, sober-minded, sound,
     sound-thinking, square, straight-thinking, strict, subtle,
     systematic, technical, technicological, technological, thorough,
     undeviating, unerring, unideal, unidealistic, unromantic,
     unsentimental, well-ordered, well-regulated, worldly
  
  

















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