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prescient |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Prescient \Pre"sci*ent\ (pr[=e]"sh[i^]*ent or -shent), a. [L. praesciens -entis, p. pr of praescire to foreknow; prae before + scire to know: cf F. prescient. See {Science}.] Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand. --Pope. Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event. --Bacon. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: prescient adj : perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extroardinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere
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