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单词 precantation
释义 precantation|priːkænˈteɪʃən|
[ad. late L. præcantātiōn-em, n. of action from L. præcantāre to foretell, later, to enchant.]
a. A singing before. Obs.
b. A prophesying or foretelling.
1623Cockeram, Præcantation, a singing before.1838G. S. Faber Inquiry 331 These apply themselves to auguries or to signs of the heavens or to vain precantations.1841–4Emerson Ess., Poet Wks. (Bohn) I. 164 The sea, the mountain-ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odours in the air.
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