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prescious

/ˈpɹɛsiəs/

prescious adjective: foreknowing; prescient.

Adjective

prescious (comparative more prescious, superlative most prescious)

  1. (obsolete) 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

Forms of prescious

comparativemore prescious
superlativemost prescious
alternative form (obsolete)præscious

Origin of prescious

Learned borrowing from Latin praescius.

Questions about prescious

What does prescious mean?
Prescious means foreknowing; prescient.
What part of speech is prescious?
Prescious is an adjective.
How do you pronounce prescious?
Prescious is pronounced /ˈpɹɛsiəs/.

Words near prescious in the dictionary

  1. prescind
  2. prescinded
  3. prescindent
  4. prescinding
  5. prescinds
  6. prescious
  7. prescission
  8. prescissions
  9. Prescod
  10. Prescods
  11. prescorbutic

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