4. (a) (Arch.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating
priest. (b) The residence of a priest or clergyman. Gwilt.
||Pres*byt"i*a (?), n. [NL. See Presbyte.] (Med.) Presbyopia.
Pres*byt"ic (?), a. (Med.) Same as Presbyopic.
Pres"byt*ism (?), n. Presbyopia.
||Pre*scap"u*la (?), n. [NL.] (Anat.) The part of the scapula in front
||of, or above, the spine, or mesoscapula.
Pre*scap"u*lar (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the prescapula;
supraspinous.
Pre"sci*ence (pr"sh*ens or - shens; 277), n. [F. prescience, L.
praescientia. See Prescient.] Knowledge of events before they take
place; foresight.
God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents.
J. Edwards.
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Pre"sci*ent (pr"sh*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.
Pre"sci*ent*ly, adv. With prescience or foresight.
Pre*scind" (pr*snd"), v. t. [L. praescindere to cut off in front; prae
before + scindere to cut asunder: cf. F. prescinder.]