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Webster 1913 Edition

(prē′shĭ-ent or -shent)

Adj.

[L.

praesciens

-entis

, p. pr. of

praescire

to foreknow;

prae

before +

scire

to know: cf. F.

prescient

. See

Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.

Pope.

Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost

prescient

, of this event.

Bacon.

Adj.

presi'ent or pre'shent. Foreknowing; having knowledge of events before they take place.

Who taught the nations of the field and wood,

Prescient, the tides or tempests to withstand?