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单词 precog
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precogn.adj.

Brit. /ˌpriːˈkɒɡ/, /ˈpriːkɒɡ/, U.S. /ˈpriˌkɑɡ/
Origin: Formed within English, by clipping or shortening. Etymons: precognition n., precognitive adj.
Etymology: Shortened < either precognition n. or precognitive adj.; apparently coined by Philip K. Dick (see quots. 1954 at sense 1 and 1954 at sense 2).
Originally Science Fiction.
1. = precognition n. 1. Frequently attributive or as adj.In adjectival use sometimes short for precognitive adj.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [noun]
foreshowinga1050
foreknowingc1374
foreseeingc1374
fore-wit1377
before-knowingc1384
presciencec1384
fore-wittingc1386
presciencec1395
foresight14..
previdence?a1425
prevision?a1425
prenostication?a1450
precognitiona1500
before-witting1532
foreknowledge1535
fore-fetch1554
presciency1572
fore-wisdom1576
prenotion1588
presension1597
prospecta1616
presensation1653
prospiciency1681
prevoyance1767
onsight1838
preview1855
precog1954
the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [adjective]
previsional1643
prescient1653
previsive1736
previsionary1818
precognitive1869
precog1954
1954 P. K. Dick in Galaxy Sci. Fiction Oct. 10/2 His wife's precog span was somewhat greater than his own.
1967 Listener 16 Mar. 359/3 Apart from the massive evidence of ESP in human life—what does the Professor say about ‘pre-cog’, I wonder—the abundance of ESP in nature must surely infuriate him.
1988 D. Suvin Positions & Presuppositions in Sci. Fiction 124 [The novel] is overburdened with quite unnecessary elements such as Mayerson's precog faculties.
2003 Contra Costa Times (Nexis) 21 Mar. t6 Beaver (Jason Lee), a wisecracking sweetheart with some vague precog skills and a penchant for chewing toothpicks.
2. A person who predicts something; a person with precognition.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [noun] > one who foreknows or foresees
fore-witterc1374
far-casterc1540
foreknower1548
foreseer1548
precog1954
1954 P. K. Dick in Galaxy Sci. Fiction Oct. 10/1 He kept on talking to the Norm-class officials grouped around the two Precogs.
1973 Daily News (N.Y.) 21 Aug. 53/1 Certain precogs prophesy the future with the buckshot approach, generalized predictions.
1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 18 May a19 The psychics, the palm readers, the astrologers, the precogs and all the various and assorted occultniks that afflict our society.
2002 N.Y. Times Mag. 15 Dec. 116/1 The world of Spielberg's ‘Minority Report’, in which future criminals are pre-emptively arrested for crimes foreseen by psychic ‘precogs’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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