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

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[ gdw]

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

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1prescience, 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  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  57.23
science 
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prescience