Prescious

//ˈpɹɛsiəs// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Foreknowing; prescient. obsolete

    "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"

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"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"

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin praescius.

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