"prescient" meaning in English

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Adjective

IPA: /ˈpɹɛsiənt/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˈpɹiːʃiənt/ [Received-Pronunciation, dated], /ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/ [General-American], /ˈpɹiːʃ(i)ənt/ [General-American] Audio: en-uk-prescient.ogg , En-us-prescient.ogg Forms: more prescient [comparative], most prescient [superlative]
Etymology: From praesciēns (“foreknowing; foretelling, predicting”), present participle of) Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), from prae- (prefix meaning ‘before; in front’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”)) + sciō (“to know, understand; to have knowledge of”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”)). The word is cognate with Middle French prescient (modern French prescient (“prescient”)), Italian presciente (“prescient”). Etymology templates: {{root|en|ine-pro|*preh₂-|*skey-}}, {{glossary|present}} present, {{glossary|participle}} participle, {{der|en|la|praesciō||to foreknow}} Latin praesciō (“to foreknow”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*preh₂-||before; in front}} Proto-Indo-European *preh₂- (“before; in front”), {{der|en|ine-pro|*skey-||to dissect; to split}} Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to dissect; to split”), {{cog|frm|prescient}} Middle French prescient, {{cog|fr|prescient||prescient}} French prescient (“prescient”), {{cog|it|presciente||prescient}} Italian presciente (“prescient”) Head templates: {{en-adj}} prescient (comparative more prescient, superlative most prescient)
  1. Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place. Synonyms: clairvoyant, foreknowing, foreseeing, prescious [obsolete], prescientific [rare], prevoyant, præscient, praescient [obsolete] Derived forms: presciently Related terms: prescience, præscience [obsolete], prescientific [rare], prescious [obsolete] Translations (exhibiting or possessing prescience): προγνωστικός (prognōstikós) (Ancient Greek), предвидлив (predvidliv) (Bulgarian), далновиден (dalnoviden) (Bulgarian), 預知的 (Chinese Mandarin), 预知的 (yùzhīde) (Chinese Mandarin), jasnozřivý (Czech), laajanäköinen (Finnish), prescient [masculine] (French), presciente [feminine] (French), hellsichtig (German), vorausschauend (German), vorausahnend (German), vorherwissend (German), presciente (Italian), praescius (Latin), forutseende (Norwegian Bokmål), presciente (Portuguese), дальновидный (dalʹnovidnyj) (Russian), presciente (Spanish), framsynt (Swedish), förutseende (Swedish), передбачливий (peredbačlyvyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian), пророчий (proročyj) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

Alternative forms

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          "text": "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; […]",
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          "text": "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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          "text": "It seems that human nature, when its original habits are cultivated and attended to, possesses something upon the same occasion of that prescient foreboding, which announces the approaching tempest to the inferior ranks of creation.",
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          "text": "The kind sorrowful blue eyes looked at me for a moment with the prescient sadness of a coming and a long farewell.",
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        "Terms with Portuguese translations",
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        "Terms with Spanish translations",
        "Terms with Swedish translations",
        "Terms with Ukrainian translations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "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:",
          "text": "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; […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "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[obert] Dodsley […], →OCLC, page 283, lines 103–104:",
          "text": "Mean time the king, aſtoniſh'd at the ſign, / Haſtes to conſult his præſcient ſire divine.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "[1812], 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:",
          "text": "Benignant Heaven, præscient and kind, / Made man for toil, and left sweet Sleep behind, / To nerve the arm which labour had unstrung— […]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1832, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter XIII, in Tales of My Landlord, Fourth and Last Series. […], volume II (Count Robert of Paris), Edinburgh: […] [Ballantyne and Company] for Robert Cadell; London: Whittaker and Co., →OCLC, pages 310–311:",
          "text": "It seems that human nature, when its original habits are cultivated and attended to, possesses something upon the same occasion of that prescient foreboding, which announces the approaching tempest to the inferior ranks of creation.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859 November 26 – 1860 August 25, [William] Wilkie Collins, “The Narrative of Walter Hartright, of Clement’s Inn, London”, in The Woman in White. […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, […], published 1860, →OCLC, part I, section IX, page 29, column 2:",
          "text": "The kind sorrowful blue eyes looked at me for a moment with the prescient sadness of a coming and a long farewell.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 August 24, Roy Emile Jack, “Business of the House—Urgency”, in Parliamentary Debates (Hansard): Fourth Session, Thirty-second Parliament: House of Representatives, volume 323, Wellington: R. E. Owen, government printer, →OCLC, page 1740:",
          "text": "Members opposite seem to be prescient; they seem to know what I am going to say before I have said it.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 January 28, Dafydd Pritchard, “Cardiff City 1 – 1 Manchester City”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2018-03-17:",
          "text": "[Neil] Warnock described City as the best team in Europe in the build-up to this match and joked that his players had been preparing for the game – and City's inevitable dominance – by training without a ball. It proved to be a prescient quip, as the home side had to toil for long periods, struggling to lay a glove on their stylish opponents.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Exhibiting",
          "exhibit#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "possess",
          "possess"
        ],
        [
          "prescience",
          "prescience"
        ],
        [
          "knowledge",
          "knowledge"
        ],
        [
          "seemingly",
          "seemingly"
        ],
        [
          "correctly",
          "correctly"
        ],
        [
          "predict",
          "predict"
        ],
        [
          "event",
          "event"
        ],
        [
          "take place",
          "take place"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "clairvoyant"
        },
        {
          "word": "foreknowing"
        },
        {
          "word": "foreseeing"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "prescious"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "rare"
          ],
          "word": "prescientific"
        },
        {
          "word": "prevoyant"
        }
      ]
    }
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    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɛsiənt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹiːʃiənt/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation",
        "dated"
      ]
    },
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈpɹiːʃ(i)ənt/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "præscient"
    },
    {
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ],
      "word": "praescient"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "predvidliv",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "предвидлив"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dalnoviden",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "далновиден"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "預知的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "yùzhīde",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "预知的"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "jasnozřivý"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "laajanäköinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "prescient"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "presciente"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "hellsichtig"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "vorausschauend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "vorausahnend"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "vorherwissend"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "prognōstikós",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "προγνωστικός"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "presciente"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "praescius"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "forutseende"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "presciente"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dalʹnovidnyj",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "дальновидный"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "presciente"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "framsynt"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "word": "förutseende"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "peredbačlyvyj",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "передбачливий"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "proročyj",
      "sense": "exhibiting or possessing prescience",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "пророчий"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prescient"
}

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