| 释义 |
prediscover, v.|priːdɪˈskʌvə(r)|
[pre- A. 1.]
trans. To discover beforehand.
1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. i. §52 These holy men did prudently prediscover that differences in judgements would unavoidably happen in the Church. 1766F. Blackburne Confess. (1767) 221 In his supposing them to have prediscovered the dissensions, that would happen in the church an hundred years after they were dead. 1926Spectator 3 July 18/2 The poet ‘prediscovers’ the Einstein theory. |