Home / Browse
P / prae-scĭo
verb transitive

prae-scĭo

2nd PP prae-scīre · 3rd PP prae-scīvi · 4th PP prae-scītum · conj. 4th
to know beforehand; to foreknow poetic •
to know beforehand, to foreknow (poet. and in postAug. prose): nonne oportuit praescisse me ante? Ter. And. 1, 5, 4: eum haec praescisse, Suet. Tib. 67.—
of God's foreknowledge; with foreknowledge •
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.
Perseus ID: n37918 Key: praescio