præscience

A form of prescience — Such knowledge that is supernatural or paranormal in nature, including the prediction of things that nobody could have known by the ordinary senses.

Meanings

nounpræscience (countable and uncountable, plural præsciences)

plural præsciences

  1. archaiccountableuncountableArchaic spelling of prescience.
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    Αὐτοκατάκρισις, Or, Self-condemnation: Exemplified in Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Barlee, and Mr. Hickman. With Occasional Reflexions on Mr Calvin, Mr Beza, Mr Zuinglius, Mr Piscator, Mr Rivet, and Mr Rollock: But More Especially on Doctor Twisse, and Master Hobbs; Against Whom, God’s Purity and His Præscience, and His Eternal Decrees According to Præscience […]

    1658: Thomas Pierce, Αὐτοκατάκρισις, Or, Self-condemnation: Exemplified in Mr. Whitfield, Mr. Barlee, and Mr. Hickman. With Occasional Reflexions on Mr Calvin, Mr Beza, Mr Zuinglius, Mr Piscator, Mr Rivet, and Mr Rollock: But More Especially on Doctor Twisse, and Master Hobbs; Against Whom, God’s Purity and His Præscience, and His Eternal Decrees According to Præscience […], main title (J.G. for R. Royston at the Angel in Ivy-lane)
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