praescio

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

prae-scĭo, īvi, ītum, 4, v. a.,

I to know beforehand , to foreknow (poet. and in postAug. prose): nonne oportuit praescisse me ante? Ter. And. 239: eum haec praescisse, Suet. Tib. 67.—

II Esp. (in eccl. Lat.), of God's foreknowledge : praescivit et praedestinavit, Vulg. Rom. 8, 29; 11, 2; Ambros. in Luc. 7, 167.—Hence, adv.: praescĭ-enter , with foreknowledge , Anon. (Hilar.) in Job, 1, p. 77.

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