单词 | presension |
释义 | † presensionn. Obsolete. = presensation n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [noun] foreshowinga1050 foreknowingc1374 foreseeingc1374 fore-wit1377 before-knowingc1384 presciencec1384 fore-wittingc1386 presciencec1395 foresight14.. previdence?a1425 prevision?a1425 prenostication?a1450 precognitiona1500 before-witting1532 foreknowledge1535 fore-fetch1554 presciency1572 fore-wisdom1576 prenotion1588 presension1597 prospecta1616 presensation1653 prospiciency1681 prevoyance1767 onsight1838 preview1855 precog1954 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas 125 They had many sorts of predictions, presentions, foreseeings. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 128 In sundry animalls, we deny not a kinde of naturall Astrologie, or innate presention both of wind and weather. View more context for this quotation a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 130 A certain divination, which the Greeks call prophecy..that is a presension, and knowledge of future things. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo i, in Wks. (1721) III. 11 They [sc. ants] have Presensions of the Change in Air, And never work Abroad but when 'tis fair. 1800 Mysterious Penitent I. iv. 76 His uncle's mysterious words, his father's cold and haughty letter, were causes of present unhappiness; but a presension of some more dreadful misery lagged at his heart. 1836 Duke of Somerset in Lady G. Ramsden Corr. Two Brothers (1906) 328 Major Howard..appeared to have a very decided presension of his untimely death. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1597 |
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