单词 | precantation |
释义 | precantationn. rare. ΚΠ 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Præcantation, a singing before. 2. A foretelling, a prophecy; a prefiguring. Also in Emerson's terminology: the pre-existing poetic essence of a thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > [noun] > a prediction or prophecy prenostica1393 spaea1400 prognostication?a1425 prenostication?a1450 forespeaking1480 prenosticature1490 soothsaying1535 foredestiny?1549 foresaw1555 presage1560 abodement1565 prenotion1588 predict1609 prophetical1615 prognosis1649 conjectation1652 prognosticate1652 propheticism1684 prognostic1701 oracle1713 precantation1838 1838 G. S. Faber Inq. Hist. & Theol. Anc. Vallenses & Albigenses 331 These apply themselves to auguries or to signs of the heavens or to vain precantations. 1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. i. 27 The sea, the mountain-ridge, Niagara, and every flower-bed, pre-exist, or super-exist, in pre-cantations, which sail like odors in the air. 1994 A. Portelli Text & Voice vi. 126 (heading) Voice and creation: Emerson's precantations. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1623 |
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