prescient

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PRESCIENT, adjective presi'ent or pre'shent. Foreknowing; having knowledge of events before they take place. Who taught the nations of the field and wood, PRESCIENT, the tides or tempests to withstand?
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