Definitionadj. perceiving the significance of events before they occur
Last update: July 3, 2015
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The priests of olden times were prescient. [Please select]
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He saw Cadiz, Seville, Granada, Athens, Constantinople, Jerusalem, Cairo, Thebes; played the corsair with James Clay on a yacht voyage from Malta to Corfu; visited the terrible Reschid, then with a Turkish army in the Albanian capital; landed in Cyprus, and left it with an expectation in his singularly prescient mind that the island would one day be English. [Please select]
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For thee the cosmic forces did The rearing of that pyramid, The prescient ages shaping with Fire, flood, and frost thy monolith. [Please select]
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Meanwhile, the prescient shadow of the coming "boom" had stolen over the hills and the work of the Guard had grown rapidly. [Please select]
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His heart was thudding against his ribs; the prescient anxiety stirring within him affected him with a physical nausea. [Please select]
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The prescient spirit of his famous great grandfather, Henry Ware, had descended upon his valiant great grandson. [Please select]
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Rousseau's genius had devised the appropriate formula; for Rousseau's sensibility had made him prescient of the rising storm. [Please select]
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I confess that I myself prefer the good old theory of design--of a God of design, and a prescient Providence. [Please select]
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It was the prescient horror of such a condition that had no little part in the neutral stand that Kentucky strove to maintain. [Please select]
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Five months before, the prescient Baron had drawn up, in case of emergency, a memorandum, which had been carefully docketed, and placed in a pigeon-hole ready to hand. [Please select]
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