prescind

English

Etymology

From Latin praescindo (“I cut off in front”).

Verb

prescind (third-person singular simple present prescinds, present participle prescinding, simple past and past participle prescinded)

1. (intransitive, with from) To abstract (from); to dismiss from consideration.
   • 1998 Fall, Alan Ryan, “In a Conversational Idiom.”, in Social Research, volume 65, number 3, pages 473-489:

     In making real-world contracts with someone else, for whatever purpose, we expressly prescind from the other party's personal, private motivation. I may agree to mow your lawn for ten dollars because I like mowing lawns, because it is the only skill I possess, because it is the only skill that anyone else is willing to purchase from me, and so endlessly on. But all you can demand from me is a mown lawn

2. (transitive) To pay exclusive attention to.

Related terms

• prescindent
• prescission

Translations

To abstract (from); to dismiss from consideration.

• Czech: oprostit se
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Further reading

• “prescind”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.