See Also: prescient(dictionary)
prescient(dictionary)

entirety (iou) and prescient (oh)


entirety (iou)



entirety noun. Also (earlier) entierty. ME.
[Old & mod. French entierete from Latin integritas, from INTEGER: see -TY1.]
Completeness; integrity; perfection. Freq. in in its entirety below. ME.
in its entirety etc., in its etc. complete form; as a whole.
b. Law. The entire or undivided possession of an estate. ME.
by entireties with husband and wife each deemed seised of a whole estate (now replaced in the UK by joint tenancy).
The whole, the sum total. Now rare. M19.

prescient (oh)



[Date: 1600-1700; Language: Latin; Origin: , present participle of praescire 'to know before']
able to imagine or know what will happen in the future
-- prescience n [U]