Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To separate or detach in thought.
- intransitive verb To withdraw one's attention from something.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To separate from other facts or ideas for special consideration; strip of extrinsic adjuncts, especially in conception.
- To withdraw the attention: usually with from.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To cut off; to abstract.
- transitive verb (Metaph.) To consider by a separate act of attention or analysis.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
cut off ,detach orseparate something - verb To
think about multiple thingsindividually - verb To
stop thinking about something
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Genuine progress, as the Church’s social teaching insists, must be integral and humane; it cannot prescind from the truth about human beings and must always be directed to their authentic good.
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Genuine progress, as the Church’s social teaching insists, must be integral and humane; it cannot prescind from the truth about human beings and must always be directed to their authentic good.
Life Issues 2009
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Genuine progress, as the Church’s social teaching insists, must be integral and humane; it cannot prescind from the truth about human beings and must always be directed to their authentic good.
Pope Benedict XVI 2009
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Genuine progress, as the Church’s social teaching insists, must be integral and humane; it cannot prescind from the truth about human beings and must always be directed to their authentic good.
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Genuine progress, as the Church’s social teaching insists, must be integral and humane; it cannot prescind from the truth about human beings and must always be directed to their authentic good.
Politics 2009
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Genuine progress, as the Church’s social teaching insists, must be integral and humane; it cannot prescind from the truth about human beings and must always be directed to their authentic good.
Culture of Death 2009
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Genuine progress, as the Church’s social teaching insists, must be integral and humane; it cannot prescind from the truth about human beings and must always be directed to their authentic good.
Social doctrine 2009
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Genuine progress, as the Church’s social teaching insists, must be integral and humane; it cannot prescind from the truth about human beings and must always be directed to their authentic good.
Current Affairs 2009
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Genuine progress, as the Church’s social teaching insists, must be integral and humane; it cannot prescind from the truth about human beings and must always be directed to their authentic good.
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You choose what you want to explain, and prescind out the parts of the complexity that don't immediately effect what you study.
whichbe commented on the word prescind
1. To cut off, detach or separate something
2. To think about multiple things individually
3. To stop thinking about something
(Wiktionary)
July 5, 2008