Word Meanings - PRESCIENCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PRESCIENCE)
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- FOREBODINGLY
In a foreboding manner. - PRESCIENCE
Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards. - FORETHOUGHT
Thought of, or planned, beforehand; aforethought; prepense; hence, deliberate. "Forethought malice." Bacon. - FORETASTE
A taste beforehand; enjoyment in advance; anticipation. - FORECASTER
One who forecast. Johnson. - PRESENTIMENT
Previous sentiment, conception, or opinion; previous apprehension; especially, an antecedent impression or conviction of something unpleasant, distressing, or calamitous, about to happen; anticipation of evil; foreboding. - FORECAST
1. To plan beforehand; to scheme; to project. He shall forecast his devices against the strongholds. Dan. xi. 24. 2. To foresee; to calculate beforehand, so as to provide for. It is wisdom to consider the end of things before we embark, and to - FORETHOUGHTFUL
Having forethought. - PRESENTIMENTAL
Of nature of a presentiment; foreboding. Coleridge. - FORETASTER
One who tastes beforehand, or before another. - FOREBODEMENT
The act of foreboding; the thing foreboded. - FOREBODER
One who forebodes. - FOREBODING
Presage of coming ill; expectation of misfortune. - FOREBODE
1. To foretell. 2. To be prescient of ; to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly. His heart forebodes a mystery. Tennyson. Sullen, desponding, and foreboding nothing but wars and desolation, - FORECASTLE
A short upper deck forward, formerly raised like a castle, to command an enemy's decks. That part of the upper deck of a vessel forward of the foremast, or of the after part of the fore channels. In merchant vessels, the forward part of the vessel, - ANTICIPATION
The commencing of one or more tones of a chord with or during the chord preceding, forming a momentary discord. Syn. -- Preoccupation; preclusion; foretaste; prelibation; antepast; pregustation; preconception; expectation; foresight; forethought. - AFORETHOUGHT
Premeditated; prepense; previously in mind; designed; as, malice aforethought, which is required to constitute murder. Bouvier.