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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Unconscious  \Un*con"scious\,  a. 
  1.  Not  conscious;  having  no  consciousness  or  power  of  mental 
  perception;  without  cerebral  appreciation;  hence  not 
  knowing  or  regarding;  ignorant;  as  an  unconscious  man. 
  --Cowper. 
 
  2.  Not  known  or  apprehended  by  consciousness;  as  an 
  unconscious  cerebration.  ``Unconscious  causes.'' 
  --Blackmore. 
 
  3.  Having  no  knowledge  by  experience;  --  followed  by  of  as 
  a  mule  unconscious  of  the  yoke.  --Pope.  -- 
  {Un*con"scious-ly},  adv  --  {Un*con"scious*ness},  n. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  unconscious 
  adj  1:  not  conscious;  lacking  awareness  and  the  capacity  for 
  sensory  perception  as  if  asleep  or  dead;  "lay 
  unconscious  on  the  floor"  [ant:  {conscious}] 
  2:  without  conscious  volition 
  3:  (followed  by  `of')  not  knowing  or  perceiving;  "happily 
  unconscious  of  the  new  calamity  at  home"-  Charles  Dickens 
  [syn:  {unconscious(p)}] 
  n  :  that  part  of  the  mind  wherein  psychic  activity  takes  place 
  of  which  the  person  is  unaware  [syn:  {unconscious  mind}] 




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