单词 | prevision |
释义 | previsionn. 1. The action or faculty of foreseeing; knowledge of or insight into the future; foresight. 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 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 44 I shal telle it for wonderfulnez of it & for preuisioun or aforesaying [?c1425 Paris for to be ware þerof; L. preuidentiam] if it falle eftesonez. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Newberry) (1974) 25 (MED) Prewysyn [a1500 Rawl. we beleve withowt seyng vnto the fruycione of His benigne mageste by thi provisioune]. 1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus iii. 7 The Apostle by mentioning of grace againe, secludeth all that prevision of workes formerly mentioned, which might be motiues vnto God for the bestowing of his Grace. 1647 J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (Matt. xxiv. 25) Prevision is the best means of prevention. 1722 R. Blackmore Redemption ii. 59 He, who by prævision can descry Events, that sleeping in their causes lie. 1741 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses II. vi. v. 623 Such a Relation..could not possibly come about but by divine Prevision. 1836 G. S. Faber Primitive Doctr. Election ii. viii. 366 God's Prevision of man's future unbelief is..dissipated. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 152 I have seen All in prevision! 1896 C. G. D. Roberts Forge in Forest xxi. 279 I have never heard that one of them..had any prevision, or made special searching of his soul before sleep. 1935 T. S. Eliot Murder in Cathedral i. 22 Rebellious bishops..would have intercepted our letters... By God's grace aware of their prevision I sent my letters on another day. 1982 F. Pohl Starburst xii. 59 There is some indication that the subject was also interested in paranormal phenomena, such as clairvoyance or prevision. 2003 Econ. Times (India) (Nexis) 19 June Saying that 'pre-vision is pro-vision', he advised the administration and the security forces to anticipate things rather than allow these to over take us. 2. An instance of foresight; a prophetic or anticipatory vision or perception. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [noun] > instance of prenotion1588 prevision1635 the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > inspired prophecy > [noun] > an inspired prophecy visionc1290 prophecyc1330 vaticiny1587 destiny1602 vaticination1603 prevision1635 weird1785 1635 T. Jackson Humiliation Sonne of God iv. xxiv. 278 The spirit of the most Evangelicall Prophets..were usually elevated unto raptures or previsions of our Saviours sufferings, by their owne like sufferings. 1682 J. Flavell Pract. Treat. Fear (new ed.) vi. 80 We see the benefit of such previsions and provisions for sufferings. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists i. 48 Stella was quite right in her previsions. She saw from the very first hint what was going to happen. 1898 H. James Turn of Screw xxiii, in Two Magics 160 I seem to see our poor eyes already lighted with some spark of a prevision of the anguish that was to come. 1942 Lowell (Mass.) Sun & Citizen-Leader 18 Mar. 4/4 This, then is the pre-vision of the Axis dominated world of Europe and Asia—Japan seizing everything along the Pacific shore [etc.]. 1979 A. C. Clarke Fountains of Paradise 66 In defiance of logic and gravity it appeared almost a prevision of his own dream. 2005 Toronto Star (Nexis) 24 Apr. d5 ‘In my early visions, numbers of men, higher than any of us could count, were cut down,’ she says early in the novel in a pre-vision of the trenches. Derivatives preˈvisionary adj. capable of or endowed with foresight; of the nature of a prevision. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > [adjective] previsional1643 prescient1653 previsive1736 previsionary1818 precognitive1869 precog1954 1818 G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ (ed. 2) II. iii. ii. 261 A special previsionary regard..to a very remarkable part of our Saviour's history. 1871 F. Jacox Script. Texts Illustr. by Gen. Lit. 255 Hazael went home, and on the very morrow commenced his justification of the seer's previsionary tears. 1955 Amer. Lit. 27 148 Prufrock's rueful, mocking, previsionary picture of himself trying to conceal his lack of virility. 1994 Daily Mail (Nexis) 22 Mar. 38 Previsionary dreams can also foretell entirely happy events. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). previsionv. 1. transitive. To have anticipatory knowledge or perception of; to foresee.In quot. 1868: to predestine. 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 1868 R. W. Buchanan North Coast 152 I long for God, I beg Him on my knee, But fear He hath to wrath previsioned me! 1873 D. F. MacCarthy Life is Dream i. vi. 30 Who discredits threatened ill, Specially an ill previsioned By one's study. 1894 Harper's Mag. July 229/2 The air blackened round me again, lighted up here and there with baleful flashes of the newspaper wit at my cost, which I previsioned in my misery. a1907 F. Thompson in E. Meynell Life F. Thompson (1916) IV. 73 Already I previsioned that with me it would be to love, not to be loved. 1950 M. Mead Male & Female 291 But this same trend was previsioned in the couplet of the early twenties. 1998 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 10 Oct. e1 Together they had made the cubist revolution, in which Gertrude Stein saw the war previsioned. ΚΠ 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles xxxvi, in Graphic 17 Oct. 451/2 Like all who have been previsioned by suffering, she could..hear a penal sentence in the fiat, ‘You shall be born’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425v.1868 |
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