Pre-see

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To foresee. rare, transitive

    "Or again, that man had once the faculty for pre-seeing the future, as he now has for remembering the past, but has lost it in great measure, on account of its biological undesirability?"

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"Or again, that man had once the faculty for pre-seeing the future, as he now has for remembering the past, but has lost it in great measure, on account of its biological undesirability?"

Etymology

From pre- + see.

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