prediscoverv.
/ˌpriːdᵻˈskʌvə/, U.S. /ˌpridəˈskəvər/ transitive. To discover beforehand.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > find out, discover [verb (transitive)] > beforehand
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1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. ix. 72 These holy men did prudently pre-discover, that differences in judgments would unavoidably happen in the Church.
1686 N. Tate et al. tr. Heliodorus Æthiopian Hist. ii. 82 Saturn with an ill Aspect beheld our House, threatning the Ruine of it, which I had wisdom to foresee, but no power to prevent; for any man may prediscover the immutable Decrees of Fate; but no man can avoid them.
1766 F. Blackburne Confessional 190 In his supposing them to have prediscovered the dissensions, that would happen in the church an hundred years after they were dead.
1904 Daily Rev. (Decatur, Illinois) 24 June 7/1 The conflagration was pre-discovered by Verne Longstreet.
1983 Hist. & Theory 22 174 Vico anticipated, but did not prediscover, Parry's claims and findings.
2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 2 Nov. b 11/1 The Austrian physicist Wolfgang Pauli prediscovered the neutrino.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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