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- noun Plural form of
precogitation .
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Examples
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We are unwilling to spin out our awaking thoughts into the phantasms of sleep, which often continueth precogitations, making cables of cobwebs, and wildernesses of handsome groves ....
Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) Leslie Stephen 1868
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-- "But the quincunx of heaven -- (the Hyades or five stars about the horizon at midnight at that time) -- runs low, and 'tis time we close the five ports of knowledge: we are unwilling to spin out our waking thoughts into the phantasmes of sleep, which often continueth precogitations, -- making tables of cobwebbes, and wildernesses of handsome groves.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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