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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
prescind .
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Examples
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Thus philosophy, including ethics, in a sense ruled over all other disciplines, so that they could never be reduced to mere techniques which prescinded from questions of right and wrong.
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Men have imagined they could frame abstract notions of the powers and acts of the mind, and consider them prescinded as well from the mind or spirit itself, as from their respective objects and effects.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley 2006
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But to frame an abstract idea of happiness, prescinded from all particular pleasure, or of goodness from everything that is good, this is what few can pretend to.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge, by George Berkeley 2006
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Continue, good Hylas, to act the same ingenuous part, and tell me sincerely whether you can frame a distinct idea of Entity in general, prescinded from and exclusive of all thinking and corporeal beings, all particular things whatsoever.
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The act of cognition is the concept, or verbum mentale, by which is apprehended the universal nature or essence of the object prescinded from its individualizing conditions.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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Hitherto we have prescinded from positive law in our treatment of the question of gambling.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Continue, good Hylas, to act the same ingenuous part, and tell me sincerely whether you can frame a distinct idea of Entity in general, prescinded from and exclusive of all thinking and corporeal beings, all particular things whatsoever.
The Second Dialogue 1909
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Men have imagined they could frame abstract notions of the powers and acts of the mind, and consider them prescinded as well from the mind or spirit itself, as from their respective objects and effects.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley 1719
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But to frame an abstract idea of happiness, prescinded from all particular pleasure, or of goodness from everything that is good, this is what few can pretend to.
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge George Berkeley 1719
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Continue, good Hylas, to act the same ingenuous part, and tell me sincerely whether you can frame a distinct idea of Entity in general, prescinded from and exclusive of all thinking and corporeal beings, all particular things whatsoever.
Three Dialogues Between Hylas and Philonous George Berkeley 1719
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