Definition of prescind in English:

intransitive verb

• 1prescind fromformal Leave out of consideration.

  ‘we have prescinded from many vexing issues’

  More example sentences

  • ‘In identifying defeaters that our evidence must eliminate if we are to claim knowledge, the more we prescind from practical considerations, the wider we cast our net.’
  • ‘There are tremendously significant issues, and this doesn't prescind from making a judgment on people's personalities.’
  • ‘Here is an opportunity to prescind from emotion and think critically about a very important subject.’
  • ‘To prescind from these features, however, is to forfeit the autonomy of concrete individuals that must, as I argued, be the starting point for determining how we should act in these cases.’
  • ‘After all, Christians cannot prescind from capitalism.’

  1. 1.1with object Cut off or separate from something.
     ‘his is an idea entirely prescinded from all of the others’
     More example sentences

     • ‘We can react to it and then prescind it from what we experience.’