WITNESS / 117
ALL WITNESSES ↗PERMANENT ATTESTATION RECORDWITNESS / 117
OBJECT
BEFORE
CLAIM.
THE PRIMARY OBJECT WAS NOT CHECKED.
A secondary lexicographic decade report, not a directly inspected seventeenth-century object or proof of coinage.
Present-Day English1620sprobable
prescient
Online Etymology Dictionary source-reported English record
“English prescient in the foreknowing sense.”
- WITNESS TYPE
- Lexicographic first-use report
- YEAR
- Not fixed
- LOCATOR
- Headword opening chronology
- REPOSITORY
- Not recorded
- SHELFMARK / OBJECT ID
- Not recorded
- FACSIMILE
- Not linked
- DIRECT INSPECTION
- No
- CONFIDENCE
- probable
WORD DOSSIERprescient ↗
CANONICAL FORM NODENODE 460 ↗
01
BIBLIOGRAPHIC PROVENANCE
THE SOURCE BEHIND THE CLAIM
- TITLE
- Prescient — Origin and history
- AUTHOR
- Douglas Harper
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Online Etymology Dictionary
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- CITATION KEY
- etymonline-prescient