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† proˈspicient, a. Obs. rare.
[ad. L. prōspiciens, -entem, pr. pple. of prōspic-ĕre to look forward.]
Having foresight; provident. So † proˈspicience Obs., † proˈspiciency Obs., the action or quality of looking forward; foresight.
1654R. Codrington tr. Iustine xliii. 503 But fortune prospicient to the Original of Rome, did provide a Woolf to give suck to the children. 1656Blount Glossogr., Prospicience, providence, fore-sight. [So 1775 in Ash; 1828 in Webster; and in recent Dicts.] 1817T. L. Peacock Melincourt vii, Well-grounded prospiciencies of hopelessness and helplessness. Ibid. xvi, The second [reason] is most refined, abstract, prospicient, and canonical. |