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prospection Now rare.|prəʊˈspɛkʃən|
[n. of action f. L. prōspic-ĕre: see prospect n.]
1. The action of looking forward; anticipation; consideration of or regard to the future; foresight.
1668H. More Div. Dial. i. ix. (1713) 18 A Principle that has a Prospection for the best, that rules all. 1668Howe Bless. Righteous (1825) 185 This is great wisdom in prospection; in taking care of the future. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xviii. (1819) 282 That the prospection, which must be somewhere, is not in the animal, but in the Creator. 1831Carlyle in Misc. Ess. (1872) III. 238 Such retrospections and prospections bring to mind an absurd rumour.
b. A seeing or beholding, a view.
1897in Chicago Advance 29 July 135/2 The higher sense gives prospection of a spiritual King and a spiritual Canaan.
2. The action of prospecting for gold or the like: see prospect v. II.
1908Westm. Gaz. 31 Mar. 11/3 The directors authorised..the prospection of the swampy land..with a view to ascertaining the possibility of working this. |