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prescience (c.1200)
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prescience (c.1200)

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  FEW:  praescientia 9,305b Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  prescience 10,409b TL: presïence 7,1787 DEAF:  prescience  DMF:  prescience  TLF:  prescience  OED:  prescience n.  MED:  prerscience n.  DMLBS:  prescientia 2423b

s.

prescience, foreknowledge: 
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  (seven year old Saint Richard) Ne sai par quele prescience U de quel mestre aveit science Que teles choses furent truvez A cas de humeine frelestez  S Rich ANTS 195
♦theol.divine foresight: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xiiiin )  Tutes les choses que humes esteient a faire, Deus les sout [...]. Neient nepurhuc par sa prescience ne lor donat que eles fussent faites, mais maiment humes li dunere[nt] force, cum il aamplisseient lur volentet  Eluc 57.23

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See also:

science 
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prescience