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praescio

praescio, to know beforehand, foreknow

prae-scĭo, īvi, ītum, 4, v. a.,
  • to know beforehand, to foreknow (poet. and in post-Aug. 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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