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prescient, a.|ˈpriːʃɪənt|
Also 8 præ-.
[a. F. prescient (15th c.), ad. L. præscientem, pr. pple. of præscīre to know before, f. præ, pre- A. 1 + scīre to know.]
Having foreknowledge or foresight; foreseeing.
a1626Bacon Hist. Gt. Brit. Wks. 1879 I. 796/1 The providence of king Henry the seventh was in all men's mouths; who..showed himself sensible and almost prescient of this event. 1733Pope Ess. Man iii. 101 Præscient, the tides or tempests to withstand. 1798Canning, etc. New Morality 123 in Anti-Jacobin 9 July, Or, like the anagallis, prescient flower, Shuts her soft petals at the approaching shower. 1845Disraeli Sybil vi. xi, Gerard prescient that some trouble might in consequence occur there. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. I. iv. 46 James Harrington, one of the most prescient minds of that great age.
b. Of, pertaining to, or arising from prescience.
1860W. Collins Wom. White i. x, The prescient sadness of a coming and a long farewell.
So † preˈsciential, præ-, a. = prec.
a1699J. Beaumont Love's Eye ii. Poems (Grosart) II. 243/1 Love..into dark Futurity With præsciential Rays doth press. |