præscient

English

Adjective

præscient (comparative more præscient, superlative most præscient)

1. Obsolete spelling of prescient
   • 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:

     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; […]

   • 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:

     Mean time the king, aſtoniſh'd at the ſign, / Haſtes to conſult his præſcient ſire divine.

   • [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:

     Benignant Heaven, præscient and kind, / Made man for toil, and left sweet Sleep behind, / To nerve the arm which labour had unstrung— […]

Anagrams

• Esperantic, increpates, interspace