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† prescit, a. Obs. rare—1.
[ad. L. præscīt-us, pa. pple. of præscīre to foreknow (see prescient), in med.L. = reprobate (see Du Cange).]
Foreknown (to be damned); hence, condemned, reprobate. So † preˈscited a.
(Præscītus ‘foreknown’ was evidently employed to avoid prædestinātus; but the latter being commonly restricted to the sense ‘presdestinated to salvation’, præscītus came to be = ‘foreordained to perdition, condemned, reprobate’.)
c1400Apol. Loll. 7 Þe pope wat not, ne of himsilf, if he be sauid of God, or prescit to be dampnid, þat if he be prescit, silk indulgencis rennun not forþ aȝen þe ordinaunce of God. a1660Contemp. Hist. Irel. (Ir. Archæol. Soc.) I. 276 The deuout penetent and humble publican, whoe by our Sauiours verditt,..was justified, and the other, your examplare and his antigoniste, prescited, by those words qui se humiliat exaltabitur, et qui se exaltat humiliabitur. |