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praescient

praescient is the obsolete spelling of prescient.

Meaning of prescient

Adjective

prescient (comparative more prescient, superlative most prescient)

  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; […]1733–1734, Stephen Duck, A Poem on the Marriage of His Serene Highness the Prince of Orange with Ann Princess-royal of Great Britain. […], London: Printed for Weaver Bickerton […], →OCLC, page 7
    Antonyms:
    unforeseeing

Forms of praescient

comparativemore praescient
superlativemost praescient

Questions about praescient

What is praescient the obsolete spelling of?
Praescient is the obsolete spelling of prescient.

Words near praescient in the dictionary

  1. praeputio-
  2. praeputiophobia
  3. praeputiophobias
  4. praeputium clitoridis
  5. praeputium penis
  6. praescient
  7. praescuta
  8. praescutum
  9. praeseodymium
  10. Praesepe
  11. praeses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: praescient (page history and authors); prescient (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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