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scientific
Part of speech: AdjectivePertaining to, or used in, the obtaining of knowledge by experiment and observation; as, scientific instruments; in accordance with, or following, the rules or method of systematized knowledge; as, scientific conclusions; systematic; exact; versed in systematized knowledge; skilled in some branch of classified knowledge.
Part of speech: Adverb Usage examples "scientific":- He was, moreover, touched by the great scientific movement. - "English Literature and Society in the Eighteenth Century", Leslie Stephen.
- Since 1878 they have been given in a very excellent way by M. Bourgault- Ducoudray; but, as is only natural in a school of music, their character is artistic rather than scientific, and takes the form of a sort of illustration of the practical work that is done at the Conservatoire. - "Musicians of To-Day", Romain Rolland Commentator: Claude Landi.
- If I was to get in with these literary and scientific people I should hate them and they me. - "The Note-Books of Samuel Butler", Samuel Butler.