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precogitation Now rare.|priːkɒdʒɪˈteɪʃən|
[ad. late L. præcōgitāti-ōnem, n. of action f. præcōgitāre: see prec. Cf. obs. F. précogitation (16th c. in Godef.).]
Previous consideration or meditation; a thinking over beforehand.
1596J. Norden Progr. Pietie (1847) 8 We may proceed on in our progress, with this precogitation following. 1658Sir T. Browne Gard. Cyrus v. 200 To spin out our awaking thoughts into the phantasms of sleep, which often continueth præcogitations; making Cables of Cobwebbes and Wildernesses of handsome Groves. 1809–10Coleridge Friend (1866) 315 This purpose may have been itself excited, and this precogitation itself abstracted from the perceived likenesses and differences of the objects to be arranged. |