Crossword clues for prescient
prescient
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost
prescient, of this event.
--Bacon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, from Middle French prescient (15c.) and directly from Latin praescientem (nominative praesciens), present participle of praescire (see prescience).
Wiktionary
a. Having knowledge of events before they take place; possessing or exhibiting prescience.
WordNet
adj. perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extroardinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere
Usage examples of "prescient".
A clairvoyant vision of the future, some prescient curse, or merely a warning about what might be coming?
She envisioned great spaceships crossing the universe without moving, guided by prescient navigators who could see safe pathways through space.
Like a master chef, she added ingredients as they occurred to her, going with a prescient sense bolstered by her theoretical proofs.
He went on to make suggestions about cutting back the prescient powers of Paul Atreides but did not make this a condition of publication.
Herbert and John Campbell talked extensively by phone about the manuscript, and the author won the arguments over the prescient powers of Paul Atreides.
His prescient visions were accurate, penetrating, and defied four-dimensional explanation.
No prescient dream, no experience of his life had quite prepared him for the totality with which the veils had been ripped away to reveal naked time.
And he realized with an abrupt sense of shock that he had been giving more and more reliance to prescient memory and it had weakened him for this particular emergency.
They were out of the storm, but still not out into the full view of his prescient vision.
And he paused, shaken by the remembered high relief imagery of a prescient vision he had experienced on Caladan.
Paul studied the open desert, questing in his prescient memory, probing the mysterious allusions to thumpers and maker hooks in the Fremkit manual that had come with their escape pack.
But Paul still felt the nexus-boiling of this cave, still remembered the prescient visions of himself dead under a knife.
The prescient knowledge of the time-boiling variables in this cave came back to plague him now.
He knew he had seen this place before, experienced it in a fragment of prescient dream on faraway Caladan, but details of the place were being filled in now that he had not seen.
The bits of his prescient memory were not quite as he remembered them.