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Definition of Prescinding
1. prescind [v] - See also: prescind
Lexicographical Neighbors of Prescinding
Literary usage of Prescinding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Exposition of the Creed: With an Appendix, Containing the Principal Greek by John Pearson, William Stephen Dobson (1832)
"This phrase then to .s/7, prescinding from the corporal posture of session, may
signify no more than habitation, possession, ..."
2. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1884)
"This idea will not be that of the essence of John as a rational animal, but the
indeterminate notion of Being or essence in general, prescinding from the ..."
3. The Works of George Berkeley, D.D., Bishop of Cloyne by George Berkeley, John Dewey, Ferdinand Gregorovius, George Sampson, Annie Hamilton, Arthur James Balfour Balfour (1898)
"... a sleeping or a waking man; but the abstract general idea of man, prescinding
from and exclusive of all particular shape, size, complexion, passions, ..."
4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"... it is possible to be dogmatic upon points of this kind which ought henceforward
to be regarded as settled. prescinding from Dr. ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... at least that every natural good act is accompanied by another which is
supernatural. (3) He maintains that, prescinding from the extrinsic Divine law, ..."
6. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(3) He maintains that, prescinding from the extrinsic Divine law, and taking into
account only the nature of things, the supernatural faith which is called ..."
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