prescient : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: prescient	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
prescient adj perceiving the significance of events before they occur; "extraordinarily prescient memoranda on the probable course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Prescient \Pre"scient\ (pr[emac]"sh[icr][eit]nt or -sh[eit]nt), a. [L. praesciens, -entis, p. pr. of praescire to foreknow; prae before + scire to know: cf. F. prescient. See {Science}.] Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious beforehand. --Pope. Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost prescient, of this event. --Bacon.