Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To separate or divide in thought; consider individually.
- v. To withdraw one's attention.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To separate from other facts or ideas for special consideration; strip of extrinsic adjuncts, especially in conception.
- To withdraw the attention: usually with from.
Wiktionary
- v. To cut off, detach or separate something
- v. To think about multiple things individually
- v. To stop thinking about something
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To cut off; to abstract.
- v. (Metaph.) To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis.
Etymologies
- Latin praescindere, to cut off in front : prae-, pre- + scindere, to cut off, split; see skei- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Genuine progress, as the Church’s social teaching insists, must be integral and humane; it cannot prescind from the truth about human beings and must always be directed to their authentic good.”
“You choose what you want to explain, and prescind out the parts of the complexity that don't immediately effect what you study.”
“This presents us with choices that cannot be postponed concerning nothing less than the destiny of man, who, moreover, cannot prescind from his nature.”
“Defining it like that allows me to prescind from concerns about whether Jesus' predictions came true or ever will.”
“A serious commitment to evangelization cannot prescind from a profound diagnosis of the real challenges the Gospel encounters in contemporary American culture.”
“They prescind, or abstract, not only from those qualities physics and mathematics abstract from, but also leave out of consideration the determination of quantity.”
“That a thing should be really perceived by my senses, and at the same time not really exist, is to me a plain contradiction; since I cannot prescind or abstract, even in thought, the existence of a sensible thing from its being perceived.”
“If we prescind from all these matters and proceed responsibly (remembering to pay attention to the law of dwindling probabilities), what we come up with is likely to be pretty slender.”
“There are tremendously significant issues, and this doesn't prescind from making a judgment on people's personalities.”
“Even if we prescind altogether from the evidence considered above, this theory appears devoid of intrinsic probability.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘prescind’.
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phrontistery - p
from phrontistery.info
pustule, purulence, pushful, purser, purpureal, putative, purpure, purpresture, purloin, purline, purlieu, purlicue and 1766 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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jaradgiese's Words
paronomasia, ostensible, insouciant, sobriquet, burlesque, insalubrious, apotheosis, hyperbole, connubial, felicity, florid, conurbation and 642 more...
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ADW2
nudnik, temper, intercalate, cleave, scowl, chapfallen, malapropos, disport, annals, paean, paradisiacal, whet and 362 more...
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cutting words
sarcasm, sarx, sarcoptic, syssarcosis, shrew, shrewd, screed, scred, shroud, scroll, scrod, scrutiny and 326 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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lanklenmot's Words
ineluctable, prelapsarian, bien pensant, prospero, preternatural, gratifying, iconoclast, cineast, persnickety, tumescent, galvanize, pap and 887 more...
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Sudeep's list
New words I learn.
sang-froid, haggard, gazebo, grotesque, cardinal, labyrinth, pejorative, visage, vignette, insouciant, formidable, prescient and 143 more...
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redtagevent's Words
exiguous, numen, recondite, concatenate, tuistic, interstitial, peroration, asperity, alacrity, expatiate, farouche, rhodomontade and 112 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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EN - funny (single) words
"Fornication" is not equal to "formication".
Words with funny meaning, spelling or both.biffy, bibcock, barratry, bastinado, bezonian, bibliobibuli, bodewash, boeotian, boondoggle, borborygmic, bosky, brobdingnagian and 729 more...
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Collagency ✂
Comparing images, cut-up, and mixing meaning.
clusterfuck, fungible, juxtaposition, assemblage, cut, paste, arrangement, theme, symbolism, association, amalgam, represtational and 110 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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perfectly good words we don't use; wh...
perfectly good words we don't use; why not?
kyoodle, maffick, fatuity, illfare, Podsnappery, raillery, roister, ruction, sequacity, grismal, acedia, zoilist and 10 more...
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arielarielariel's Words
squirrel, marshmallow, beetle, robot, revenant, inculcate, efficacious, tortuous, instauration, capacious, solicitous, delectation and 17 more...
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Daily
thaumaturgy, lagniappe, gabble, Cytherean, samizdat, lixiviate, quintal, Rabelaisian, prescind, duende, deglutition, mancinism and 69 more...
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whichbe 1. To cut off, detach or separate something
2. To think about multiple things individually
3. To stop thinking about something
(Wiktionary) Jul 5, 2008