prescience
11PRESCIENCE — n. f. T. de Théologie Connaissance de ce qui doit arriver. Il ne se dit qu’en parlant de Dieu. La prescience divine. Il se dit, par extension, dans le langage courant, de la Prévision de l’avenir chez les hommes. Il eut, par une sorte de… …
12prescience — noun /ˈpɹɛsɪ.əns,ˈpɹɛʃɨns/ Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge. Gods certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards …
13prescience — prescient ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having knowledge of events before they take place. DERIVATIVES prescience noun presciently adverb. ORIGIN from Latin praescire know beforehand …
14prescience — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin praescientia, from Latin praescient , praesciens, present participle of praescire to know beforehand, from prae + scire to know more at science Date: 14th century foreknowledge of events: a. divine… …
15prescience — prescient, adj. presciently, adv. /presh euhns, ee euhns, pree sheuhns, shee euhns/, n. knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight. [1325 75; ME < LL praescientia foreknowledge. See PRE , SCIENCE] * * * …
16prescience — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. foresight, prediction, anticipation; see acumen . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Unusual or creative discernment or perception: farsightedness, foresight, vision. See FORESIGHT …
17prescience — pre·sci·ence || prɪËʃns / presɪəns n. (about God) divine omniscience, state of being all knowing; foreknowledge; foresight, ability to foresee future events …
18prescience — n. Foreknowledge, precognition, foresight, forecast, prevision …
19prescience — n foreknowledge, clairvoyance, clairvoyancy, precognition, second sight; foresight, prevision; farsightedness, far seeingness, long sightedness, circumspection …
20prescience — pre·science …
