previse
/prɪˈvʌɪz
/verb [with object] literary
Foresee or predict (an event): he had intelligence to previse the possible future...
- The future cannot be prevised except in a general way, in an unfinished universe where science must expect to revise its formulations in further research.
Derivatives
prevision
- Unfortunately, for obtaining a prevision of such events, not a penny was spent.
- Is the appearance of design in organisms (as exhibited in their functional complexity) the result of purely natural forces acting without prevision or teleology?
- The only fiction which she ever wrote in the first person, it tells of a young man, Latimer, whose dubious gift of prevision causes him repeatedly to relive the moment of his approaching death.
previsional
- Some scientific investigators consider precognition a branch of clairvoyance and call it previsional clairvoyance.
Origin
Late 16th century: from Latin praevis- 'foreseen, anticipated', from the verb praevidere, from prae 'before' + videre 'to see'.