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- prescient (adj.) 1620s, from Fr. prescient (15c.), from L. praescientem, prp. of praescire (see PRESCIENCE (Cf. prescience)).
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prescient — ● prescient, presciente adjectif Doué de prescience. ● prescient, presciente (difficultés) adjectif Orthographe et sens Ne pas confondre ces deux adjectifs. 1. Prescient, e (sans accent aigu sur le e) adj. = qui a la connaissance intuitive de l… … Encyclopédie Universelle
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. [1913… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
prescient — presciént adj. m., pl. presciénţi; f. sg. presciéntă, pl. presciénte Trimis de siveco, 10.08.2004. Sursa: Dicţionar ortografic PRESCIÉNT, Ă adj. înzestrat cu capacitatea de a şti dinainte ce urmează; prevăzător. (< fr … Dicționar Român
prescient — prescient, ente (prè si an, an t ) adj. Qui a la prescience d une chose, des événements futurs. HISTORIQUE XVe s. • S il voit les biens et les iniquités à son miroer prescient, pardurable...., E. DESCH. Poés. mss. f° 104. ÉTYMOLOGIE Voy.… … Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré
prescient — index omniscient, prophetic, vigilant Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
prescient — ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having knowledge of events before they take place. DERIVATIVES prescience noun presciently adverb. ORIGIN from Latin praescire know beforehand … English terms dictionary
prescient — [[t]pre̱siənt, AM pre̱ʃ [/t]] ADJ GRADED If you say that someone or something was prescient, you mean that they were able to know or predict what was going to happen in the future. [FORMAL] ... Bob Roberts , an eerily prescient comedy about a… … English dictionary
prescient — prescience, prescient The usual pronunciations are pres i ǝns and pres i ǝnt, with the first and second syllables both short … Modern English usage
Prescient store — A prescient store is an operation to allow store operations to occur earlier than would otherwise be permitted in the context of threads and locks. The process needs some way of knowing ahead of time what value will be stored by the assignment… … Wikipedia
prescient — adjective see prescience … New Collegiate Dictionary
