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Definition of Prescient
1. Adjective. Perceiving the significance of events before they occur. "Extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"
Definition of Prescient
1. a. Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand.
Definition of Prescient
1. Adjective. Having knowledge of events before they take place; possessing or exhibiting prescience. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Prescient
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prescient
Literary usage of Prescient
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Edinburgh Review by Sydney Smith (1869)
"... the idea that he could desecrate the place where rests the spirit of' the
teacher of ten thousand ages,' ' the most holy prescient sage Confucius. ..."
2. History of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1852)
"... without misgivings of his dynastic stability, the instincts of Josephine's
poor ignorant mother were more prescient than all Napoleon's vast knowledge. ..."
3. Long Life: The Occasional Review of an Investigation of the Intimate Causes by Charles Asbury Stephens (1896)
"The prescient Discoverer remained all day with us and disclosed nothing; and at
night he ... The prescient Discoverer came back next day, and at luncheon he ..."
4. Conservative Science of Nations (preliminary Instalment): Being the First by Alexander Somerville (1860)
"prescient Conservatism educates itself from the facts of the past. While preparing
these introductory chapters, and questioning if it be necessary on this ..."
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