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prescious en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈpɹɛsiəs/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praescius.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Foreknowing; prescient.
   • Whose holy soul the stroke of Fortune fled— Prescious of ills, and leaving me behind, To drink the dregs of life by fate assign'd 1697, Virgil, “The Eleventh Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

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