præscient

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Adjective

præscient (comparative more præscient, superlative most præscient)

  1. Obsolete spelling of prescient.
    • 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:
      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; []
    • 1753, Virgil, “Virgil’s Æneid. The Seventh Book.”, in Christopher Pitt, transl., edited by [Joseph Warton], The Works of Virgil, in Latin and English. , volume III, London: Printed for R Dodsley , →OCLC, page 283, lines 103–104:
      Mean time the king, aſtoniſh'd at the ſign, / Haſtes to conſult his præſcient ſire divine.
    • , William Grisenthwaite, Sleep, a Poem in Two Books, with Other Miscellaneous Poems, , Lynn: Printed for the author, by W. G. Whittingham, and sold by R. Baldwin, , →OCLC, book I, page 5, lines 77–79:
      Benignant Heaven, præscient and kind, / Made man for toil, and left sweet Sleep behind, / To nerve the arm which labour had unstrung— []

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