prescious
See also: precious
English
editAlternative forms
edit- præscious (archaic)
Etymology
editLatin praescius; prae before + scius knowing, from scire to know.
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editprescious (comparative more prescious, superlative most prescious)
- (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