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English
Etymology
Latin praescius; prae before + scius knowing, from scire to know.
Pronunciation
Adjective
prescious (comparative more prescious, superlative most prescious)
- (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