precognizev.
/ˌpriːkɒɡˈnʌɪz/, /ˌpriːkəɡˈnʌɪz/, U.S. /ˌpriˈkɑɡˌnaɪz/ transitive. To have, or profess to have, foreknowledge of; to know beforehand.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > foresee or foreknow [verb (transitive)]
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1612 S. Sturtevant Metallica ii. 34 Except that the Art.., general to all Arts & inuentions called Heuretica be first precognized.
1792 B. Boothby Observ. Appeal from New to Old Whigs 273 If I were to precognize ‘Rights of Man’ in a few words I should say, that it is the work of a shrewd empiric..containing nothing new or ingenious.
1796 Times 9 Jan. 3/2 It is the aim of the revolution..to precognize the Constitution of 1793.
1862 M. Hopkins Hawaii 189 He could not..intuitively precognize the system of Christianity.
1884 Times 18 Aug. 2/1 The system he personally precognized was a natural..outcome of the degrading influence exercised by the bureaucratic autocracy of Russia.
1956 A. J. Ayer Probl. Knowl. iv. 187 There is a tendency for them [sc. non-philosophers] to think that if future events were precognized, they would have to exist already... To precognize something is to know, not what is happening, but what will happen.
1970 A. Cameron et al. Computers & Old Eng. Concordances 29 I don't foresee the solution that you are precognizing for the simple reason that I don't think there is enough demand for any computer to be built.
2001 Futures (Nexis) Feb. Policies oriented towards getting a state of global equilibrium as precognized in Limits to Growth would tend to ensure that the present injustices in the global systems are maintained.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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