Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To know in advance; foresee.
- transitive verb To notify in advance; forewarn.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To foresee.
- To cause to foresee; forewarn; advise beforehand.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To foresee.
- transitive verb To inform beforehand; to warn.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
foresee . - verb To
warn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb realize beforehand
- verb warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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MICHAEL SHERMER, PUBLISHER, "SKEPTIC" MAGAZINE: Well, Anderson, I need to previse my remarks by noting that, there are no conspiracies, there is no cover-up, there was no crash and the government never lies.
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But it behoves us to previse that the doctor does not kill her before the lawyer comes. '
Evan Harrington — Volume 7 George Meredith 1868
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But it behoves us to previse that the doctor does not kill her before the lawyer comes. '
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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But it behoves us to previse that the doctor does not kill her before the lawyer comes. '
Evan Harrington — Complete George Meredith 1868
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'Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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’Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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’Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
akmed13 commented on the word previse
From Latin praevisus, past participle of praevidere (to foresee), from
pre- (before) + videre (to see). Ultimately from the Indo-European root
weid- (to see) that is the source of words such as wise, view, supervise,
and wit.
from wordsmith.org
June 6, 2007
qms commented on the word previse
Cassandra with far-seeing eyes
Was cursed with the gift to previse.
Her passionate pleading
Yet yielded no heeding,
For truth needs a pleasing disguise.
October 3, 2016