presensationn.

1653 H. More Second Lash of Alazonomastix 219 The presage and presensation of it, has in all ages been a very great Joy and Triumph to all holy men and Prophets.

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists ii. iv. 121 Beasts..have indeed Perceptions, Sensations, and Pre-sensations (if I may use the Term).

1739 D. Hume Treatise II. ii. ii. §i. 100 Guided by common experience, as well as by a kind of presensation; which tells us what will operate on others, by what we feel immediately in ourselves.

a1795 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. (1799) (ed. 2) III. xxv. 59 We feel our minds urged on to inquiries after truth as it were by a presensation of its supreme beauty, and a preconception of its being to us a good.

1807 J. Hall Trav. Scotl. II. 436 Many believe in the prescience or presensation of magpies.

1890 Q. Rev. July 256 Concerning the faculty of presensation, it is worth while to say a little more.

1908 Mansfield (Ohio) News 25 July This presensation, or whatever you may call it, which exists in many birds and beasts, may be explained partly from the increasing weight of the atmosphere when rain is forming.

2004 J. E.Roeckelein Imagery in Psychol. ii. 190 The activity of that lower level exactly as activity of the percept-arc may be stimulated by activity in the next lower level—that of the presensation—and, in its turn, may partly control the activity of that level.