prescient
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Definition of prescient
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
adj
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Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.
“And if the præſcient Muſes guide my Lay, / Or, future Secrets, Phœbus can diſplay, / The Day ſhall ſhine diſtinguiſh'd from the reſt, / That Anna dignify'd, and Hymen bleſt; […]”
“Mean time the king, aſtoniſh'd at the ſign, / Haſtes to conſult his præſcient ſire divine.”
“Benignant Heaven, præscient and kind, / Made man for toil, and left sweet Sleep behind, / To nerve the arm which labour had unstrung— […]”
“It seems that human nature, when its original habits are cultivated and attended to, possesses something upon the same occasion of that prescient foreboding, which announces the approaching tempest to the inferior ranks of creation.”
“The kind sorrowful blue eyes looked at me for a moment with the prescient sadness of a coming and a long farewell.”
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Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) +…
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Learned borrowing from Latin praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sciō (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)). The word is cognate with Middle French prescient (modern French prescient (“prescient”)), Italian presciente (“prescient”). By surface analysis, pre- (“earlier in time, beforehand”) + scient (“knowing, aware”).
Words you can make from prescient
200+ playable · top: PRENTICES (13 pts)
Best play prentices 13 points9-letter words
1 word8-letter words
10 words7-letter words
49 words- CRISPEN 11 pts
- INCEPTS 11 pts
- INSPECT 11 pts
- PECTENS 11 pts
- PECTINS 11 pts
- PERCENT 11 pts
- PIECERS 11 pts
- PIERCES 11 pts
- PINCERS 11 pts
- PRECENT 11 pts
- PRECISE 11 pts
- PRINCES 11 pts
- RECEIPT 11 pts
- RECEPTS 11 pts
- RECIPES 11 pts
- RESPECT 11 pts
- SCEPTER 11 pts
- SCEPTRE 11 pts
- SPECTER 11 pts
- SPECTRE 11 pts
- SPENCER 11 pts
- TRICEPS 11 pts
- CENTERS 9 pts
- CENTRES 9 pts
- CERESIN 9 pts
- CERITES 9 pts
- CISTERN 9 pts
- CRETINS 9 pts
- ENTERIC 9 pts
- ENTICER 9 pts
- ENTICES 9 pts
- EREPSIN 9 pts
- INEPTER 9 pts
- PENSTER 9 pts
- PESTIER 9 pts
- PRESENT 9 pts
- PTERINS 9 pts
- RECITES 9 pts
- REPENTS 9 pts
- REPINES 9 pts
- RESPITE 9 pts
- SERPENT 9 pts
- SINCERE 9 pts
- TENRECS 9 pts
- TIERCES 9 pts
- ENTIRES 7 pts
- ENTRIES 7 pts
- RETINES 7 pts
- TRIENES 7 pts
6-letter words
97 words- CREEPS 10 pts
- CREPES 10 pts
- CRIPES 10 pts
- INCEPT 10 pts
- PECTEN 10 pts
- PECTIN 10 pts
- PIECER 10 pts
- PIECES 10 pts
- PIERCE 10 pts
- PINCER 10 pts
- PRECIS 10 pts
- PRICES 10 pts
- PRINCE 10 pts
- RECEPT 10 pts
- RECIPE 10 pts
- SCRIPT 10 pts
- SEPTIC 10 pts
- SPECIE 10 pts
- SPENCE 10 pts
- SPICER 10 pts
- TRICEP 10 pts
- CENSER 8 pts
- CENTER 8 pts
- CENTRE 8 pts
- CERISE 8 pts
- CERITE 8 pts
- CERTES 8 pts
- CITERS 8 pts
- CRETIN 8 pts
- ENTICE 8 pts
- ERECTS 8 pts
- ESPRIT 8 pts
- INCEST 8 pts
- INSECT 8 pts
- INSTEP 8 pts
- NICEST 8 pts
- NIECES 8 pts
- PESTER 8 pts
- PETERS 8 pts
- PREENS 8 pts
- PRESET 8 pts
- PRIEST 8 pts
- PRINTS 8 pts
- PTERIN 8 pts
- RECENT 8 pts
- RECITE 8 pts
- RECITS 8 pts
- REPENT 8 pts
- REPINE 8 pts
- REPINS 8 pts
- RESECT 8 pts
- RIPENS 8 pts
- RIPEST 8 pts
- SCREEN 8 pts
- SECERN 8 pts
- SECRET 8 pts
- SITREP 8 pts
- SNIPER 8 pts
- SPINET 8 pts
- SPRENT 8 pts
- SPRINT 8 pts
- SPRITE 8 pts
- STERIC 8 pts
- STRIPE 8 pts
- TENREC 8 pts
- TERCES 8 pts
- TIERCE 8 pts
- TRICES 8 pts
- TRIPES 8 pts
- ENTERS 6 pts
- ENTIRE 6 pts
- ESTRIN 6 pts
- INERTS 6 pts
- INSERT 6 pts
- INTERS 6 pts
- NEREIS 6 pts
- NESTER 6 pts
- NITERS 6 pts
- NITRES 6 pts
- RENEST 6 pts
- RENTES 6 pts
- RESENT 6 pts
- RESITE 6 pts
- RETIES 6 pts
- RETINE 6 pts
- SEINER 6 pts
- SEREIN 6 pts
- SERINE 6 pts
- SINTER 6 pts
- STRINE 6 pts
- TENESI 6 pts
- TENSER 6 pts
- TERNES 6 pts
- TREENS 6 pts
- TRIENE 6 pts
- TRIENS 6 pts
- TRINES 6 pts
5-letter words
42 words- CEPES 9 pts
- CREEP 9 pts
- CREPE 9 pts
- CREPT 9 pts
- CRIPE 9 pts
- CRIPS 9 pts
- CRISP 9 pts
- EPICS 9 pts
- CENSE 7 pts
- CENTS 7 pts
- CERES 7 pts
- CERTS 7 pts
- CESTI 7 pts
- CETES 7 pts
- CINES 7 pts
- CIRES 7 pts
- CITER 7 pts
- CITES 7 pts
- CREST 7 pts
- CRIES 7 pts
- CRITS 7 pts
- ERECT 7 pts
- ETICS 7 pts
- INEPT 7 pts
- NEEPS 7 pts
- NICER 7 pts
- NIECE 7 pts
- PEENS 7 pts
- PEERS 7 pts
- PEINS 7 pts
- PEISE 7 pts
- ENTER 5 pts
- ERNES 5 pts
- ESTER 5 pts
- INERT 5 pts
- INSET 5 pts
- INTER 5 pts
- NEIST 5 pts
- NERTS 5 pts
- NITER 5 pts
- NITES 5 pts
- NITRE 5 pts
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