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presentient, a.|priːˈsɛnʃ(ɪ)ənt|
[ad. L. præsentient-em, pres. pple. of præsentīre to feel or perceive beforehand: see pre- A. 3 and sentient.]
Feeling or perceiving beforehand; having a presentiment; scenting beforehand.
1814Southey Roderick xviii. 322 The ravenous fowls of heaven Flock there presentient of their food obscene. 1818J. H. Hunt tr. Tasso xix. 76 Shrinks then thy heart, presentient of its doom? 1854Patmore Angel in Ho. i. i. xii. (1879) 133 And, ere we reached her father's gate We paused with one presentient mind. 1888Quiller-Couch Troy Town ix, Mrs. Buzza,..presentient of evil, ran downstairs. |