prescient

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13
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16
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9
Pronunciation
/ˈpɹɛsiənt/
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/ˈpɹɛsiənt/ · /ˈpɹiːʃiənt/ · /ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/ · /ˈpɹiːʃ(i)ənt/ · /ˈpɹɛsiənt/ (US)

Definition of prescient

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. 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”).

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