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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of or relating to prescience.
  2. adj. Possessing prescience.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Foreknowing; having knowledge of events before they take place.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having knowledge of events before they take place; possessing or exhibiting prescience.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. perceiving the significance of events before they occur

Etymologies

  1. From Latin praescire ("know beforehand"), from prae + scire. (Wiktionary)
  2. French, from Old French, from Latin praesciēns, praescient-, present participle of praescīre, to know beforehand : prae-, pre- + scīre, to know. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Whether Stephenson's vision of a totally privatized America will turn out to be equally prescient is at least one theme of Jody Freeman and Martha Minow's edited volume, Government by Contract.”

    The Huffington Post: David Isenberg: Admiral Bob's Global Security: The Future of PSC?

  • “Buckley warned in prescient terms against what would become the Rovite heresy at the Xth Party Congress in 1976.”

    Matthew Yglesias » Independent Thinking!

  • “He's made some bad ones, to be sure - he was notably burned by telecom companies during the dotcom bust - but over the course of a few decades of investing, Gilder has become known as a prescient technophile.”

    Forbes.com: News

  • “Look up the word prescient, then reread the last few posts.”

    Think Progress

  • “In a groundbreaking new book that Publishers Weekly has already called "prescient" -”

    intellectual properties

  • “In 2007, Mr. Dai gave up a manufacturing business he had run for years and switched to credit guarantee, a change of course he jokingly calls "prescient" in light of the funding plight facing small manufacturers now.”

    The Wall Street Journal: China's New Lenders of Last Resort

  • “(Recall his prescient volume "Condi vs. Hillary," published before the 2008 Presidential election campaign.)”

    The Huffington Post: Knowing Know-It-Alls

  • “I can recall a prescient political cartoon about candidate Reagan from Pat Oliphant circa campaign 1976:”

    The Chimes at Midnight

  • “Few Israelis have yet publicly recalled the prescient remark of one of the fathers of modern Zionism, Chaim Weizmann: "The world will judge the Jewish state by the way it will treat the Arabs.”

    Signs of the Times

  • “Ms. Willingham, 30, could not help but recall a prescient conversation she and her younger brother had recently.”

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  • seanahan This is an excellent word, sounds like precious, describe foresight, or the ability to see into the future, whether figuratively or literally. Jul 7, 2007

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