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clairvoyant, a. and n.|klɛəˈvɔɪənt|
[Fr. clairvoyant, clear-sighted, optically or mentally.]
A. adj.
‖1. [Fr.] Clear-sighted, having insight.
1671Dk. Buckhm. Rehearsal iii. i. (Arb.) 73 If he likes it, I know what to think of him... I am Clara voyant, a gad.
2. Having or exercising the faculty of clairvoyance; pertaining to clairvoyance.
1850W. Gregory Anim. Magnetism 158 Clairvoyant Prevision or the power..of predicting future events. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 208 The appeal to clairvoyant skill, by Montanus.
b. fig. (cf. sense 1, and clairvoyance 2).
1883H. Drummond Nat. Law in Spir. W. 11 The clairvoyant power of seeing the eternal in the temporal.
B. n.
‖1. [Fr.] A clear-sighted person. Obs.
1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 353 He is also one of the Clairvoyans, and of the order of the Chevaliers des Lunettes.
2. One who possesses, or is alleged to possess, the faculty of clairvoyance. (Often treated as Fr. |klɛrvwajɑ̃| with fem. clairvoyante |-ɑ̃t|.)
1851H. Mayo Pop. Superst. (ed. 2) 159 The powers here attributed to very lucid clairvoyants. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. 53 A docile clairvoyante, who would really not make a mistake if she could help it. 1862Lytton Str. Story I. 90 He had consulted a clairvoyante..as to Lilian's health.
Hence clairˈvoyantly adv.
1885Sinnett Karma I. 49 Does she look about the world clairvoyantly, and tell..what is going on in distant places? |