Full record for sentient n.

Definition	an intelligent being
OED requirements	antedating 1970
Earliest cite	Philip José Farmer, 'Maker of Universes'
Comment	Malcolm Farmer submitted a 1992 citation from Vernor Vinge's "A Fire Upon the Deep". Douglas Winston submitted a citation from a 1970 reprint of Philip Jose Farmer's "The Maker of Universes": we would like to verify this in its 1965 first printing. Douglas Winston sumitted a 1999 citation from Diane Duane's "Storm at Eldala".Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a 2000 reprint of Linda Evans' "The Stray". Douglas Winston submitted a 1999 cite from Lisanne Norman's "Dark Nadir", Malcolm Farmer submitted a cite from a 1992 reprint of Jack C. Haldeman II's 1978 "Longshot".
Last modified	6 July, 2008

Citations for sentient n.

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1965 P. J. Farmer Maker of Universes (1975) 30	The merpeople and the sentients who lived on the beach often hitched rides on these creatures, steering them by pressure on exposed nerve centers.
1992 V. Vinge Fire upon Deep xviii. 142	The answer should be clear to any idiot: the Helper does not have the power to teleoperate large numbers of sentients.
1993 V. Milan From Depths ii. 36	We prefer the term ‘sentients.’
1999 D. Duane Storm at Eldala 15	Besides the colonists, there's a considerable presence of scientists studying the riglia, those avian sentients they found.