præscious
præscious is the obsolete spelling of prescious.
Meaning of prescious
Adjective
prescious (comparative more prescious, superlative most prescious)
- Foreknowing; prescient.
- Whose holy soul the stroke of Fortune fled—
Prescious of ills, and leaving me behind,
To drink the dregs of life by fate assign'd1697, Virgil, “The Eleventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC
- Whose holy soul the stroke of Fortune fled—
Forms of præscious
| comparative | more præscious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most præscious |
Questions about præscious
- What is præscious the obsolete spelling of?
- Præscious is the obsolete spelling of prescious.
Words near præscious in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: præscious (page history and authors); prescious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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