prescious

See also: precious

English

Alternative forms

• præscious (archaic)

Etymology

Latin praescius; prae before + scius knowing, from scire to know.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɹɛsiəs/

Adjective

prescious (comparative more prescious, superlative most prescious)

1. (obsolete) foreknowing; prescient
   • 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:

     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