单词 | previse |
释义 | † previsev.1 Obsolete. transitive. To provide or supply with an amount of something. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] affordOE findOE purveyc1300 chevise1340 ministera1382 upholda1417 supply1456 suppeditate1535 perfurnishc1540 previse1543 subminister1576 tend1578 fourd1581 instaurate1583 to find out1600 suffice1626 subministrate1633 affurnisha1641 apply1747 to stump up1833 to lay on1845 to come up with1858 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 385 (MED) The duches..was..well within her selfe auysed, Of greate sadnesse and womanhede preuised [v.r. preuided]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online December 2021). previsev.2 1. transitive. To foresee, forecast; to envisage. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > foresee [verb (intransitive)] foreseec1000 before-seea1382 previse1597 prevision1868 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > foresee or foreknow [verb (transitive)] fore-witc888 foreseec1000 foreshowc1000 seea1200 forelook1340 purvey1340 before-knowa1425 providea1450 previdec1475 provisec1475 foreknow1530 expect1595 previse1597 preview1607 precognize1612 prospect1652 fore-viewa1711 prevision1868 presee1890 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xxii. 288 God had a purpose prevised herein, to worke the glorie of his name. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 290 Neyther doe they preuise, or prouide for after-claps. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 5th Bk. Wks. xxii Faculties, that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately. 1788 H. Clarke School Candidates iv. 35 Never..let any adventitious extraneous affairs make any impression on your conceptive, cogitative faculties, so that you may previse the facility of the intuitive operations adequately. 1854 A. C. Mowatt Ritchie Autobiogr. Actress 176 Precisely at the hour you had prevised and predicted..you fell back in the most violent convulsions. 1890 J. Skinner Diss. Metaphysics 98 He had intelligence to previse the possible future. 1956 Jrnl. Philos. 53 208 How could even infinite intelligence previse what is not there to be observed ahead of time? 1967 Jrnl. Aesthetics & Art Crit. 26 244/2 The future cannot be prevised except in a general way. 2000 Toronto Sun (Nexis) 13 Sept. c6 Because you cannot previse the sensitivities of a reader you have not met, you may want to..do some research on that person. 2. transitive. To advise or inform beforehand. Now rare. ΚΠ 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. ii. i. 187 Who sent to previse thee of it? 1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Pelham xv. 108 Mr. Pelham..has prevised the reader, that Lord Vincent was somewhat addicted to paradox. 1873 Littell's Living Age 7 June 599/1 The disappointment you would naturally experience if you learned my bequest without being prevised of the conditions which I am about to impose upon your honour. 1997 Lambda Bk. Rep. (Nexis) 30 Nov. 9 These thematic threads, however, would not likely stand out to a reader if not prevised to look for them. Derivatives preˈvised adj. foreseen. ΚΠ 1644 F. Quarles Barnabas & Boanerges 118 He takes benefit by prevised misery, that strives to eschew it. 1865 Ladies' Repository Jan. 6/1 There are almost numberless, nameless wants which can not be relieved through any prevised channels of a military system. 1911 Jrnl. Philos., Psychol. & Sci. Methods 8 625 Modification which need follow no particular order, obey no determinate law, assume no prevised form. 1956 Philos. Sci. 23 271 The ethical ought functions merely as a ‘trigger’ prescribing the actualization of some prevised end. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.11543v.21597 |
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