Hypertext Webster Gateway: "prescient"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Prescient \Pre"sci*ent\ (pr[=e]"sh[i^]*ent or -shent), a. [L.
praesciens, -entis, p. pr. of praescire to foreknow; prae
before + scire to know: cf. F. prescient. See {Science}.]
Having knowledge of coming events; foreseeing; conscious
beforehand. --Pope.
Henry . . . had shown himself sensible, and almost
prescient, of this event. --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
prescient
adj : perceiving the significance of events before they occur;
"extroardinarily prescient memoranda on the probable
course of postwar relations"-R.H.Rovere
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