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prettygoodwordprescind (pri-SIND) - v., to cut off, detach, or separate something; to consider (one thing) carefully; to withdraw attention from (usually followed by "from").
So, yeah, another of those self-contradictory words. The first sense given is the root one: borrowed in the 1640s from Latin praescindere, to cut off in front, from prae, before + scindere, to split.
---L.
So, yeah, another of those self-contradictory words. The first sense given is the root one: borrowed in the 1640s from Latin praescindere, to cut off in front, from prae, before + scindere, to split.
---L.
