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1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ii. 6 The Air..must be defin'd, prescinding from all Admistions that are extraneous to it.

1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron II. vii. v. 135 The abstract general Idea of Man, prescinding from, and exclusive of all particular Shape, Size, Complexion, [etc.].

1788 R. Harris Scriptural Res. on Licitness of Slave-trade p. v My sole drift..is to examine..whether the [slave] Trade itself, prescinding from every other incidental circumstance, which may have rendered the practice of it hateful, or even criminal, be in its own nature licit or illicit.

1941 Far Eastern Q. 1 87 Prescinding from this misleading treatment of the mission history, the author's presentation of the Tokugawa Shogunate is most elucidating.

1990 B. Bergon Exploding Eng. (BNC) 145 The last of the Victorian sages, who were men of letters and of affairs, not academics (prescinding from Arnold's and Ruskin's marginal tenure of chairs at Oxford).