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Webster 1913 Edition


Presciently

Pre′sci-ent-ly

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adv.
With prescience or foresight.

Definition 2024


presciently

presciently

English

Adverb

presciently (comparative more presciently, superlative most presciently)

  1. In a prescient manner.
    • 1992 Giles Radice, Offshore: Britain and the European Idea (page 20)
      It was Sir Walter Raleigh who presciently said: 'Who commands the sea commands trade; who commands the trade of the world commands its riches, and so commands the world itself.'