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单词 deuteroscopy
释义 deuteroscopy|djuːtəˈrɒskəpɪ|
[f. deutero- + Gr. -σκοπία, σκοπιά look-out, watch, view.]
1. The second view; that which is seen upon a second view; an ulterior meaning. Obs.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. i. iii. 9 Not attaining the deuteroscopy and second intention of the words.1650Charleton Paradoxes 49 Truth itself interprets this..text literally, and without enfolding any mystery or deuteroscopy.1656Blount Glossogr., Deuteroscopy, the second end, aim, or intention, a second consideration or thought.
2. ‘Second sight’; clairvoyance. rare.
1822Scott Nigel Introd. Ep., The Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye.
Hence deuteroˈscopic a., of or pertaining to second sight.
1841Fraser's Mag. XXV. 270 The deuteroscopic, or thanatomantic faculty.
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