PRESCIENCE, noun presi'ence or pre'shens. [Low Latin proescientia; proe, before, and scientia, knowledge.] Foreknowledge; knowledge of events before they take place. Absolute prescience belongs to God only. Of things of the most accidental and mutable nature, God's prescience is certain.
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