prescious

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Etymology

Latin praescius; prae before + scius knowing, from scire to know.

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Adjective

prescious (comparative more prescious, superlative most prescious)

  1. (obsolete) foreknowing; prescient
    • 1697, 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—
      Prescious of ills, and leaving me behind,
      To drink the dregs of life by fate assign'd