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prescient

'presiәnt4 senses · 366 ms
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adj/ˈpɹɛsiənt//ˈpɹiːʃiənt//ˈpɹɛʃ(i)ənt/
  1. 1

    Exhibiting or possessing prescience: having knowledge of, or seemingly able to correctly predict, events before they take place.

    • 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; […]
    • Mean time the king, aſtoniſh'd at the ſign, / Haſtes to conſult his præſcient ſire divine.

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