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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
precognosce .
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Examples
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"precognosced" the prisoner, hoping to draw something out of Him,
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I would fain have precognosced him myself on these affairs, but found him unwilling to speak out, as I have partly intimated before.
Redgauntlet 2008
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As witnesses in the case, they had been precognosced to such an extent by the lawyers that their intellects were almost overturned.
The Red Eric 1859
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It would be to set off the _possible_ evidence of the absent witnesses, not yet precognosced in the case, against the express declarations of the witnesses already examined, and strong on the positive side.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed Hugh Miller 1829
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I would fain have precognosced him myself on these affairs, but found him unwilling to speak out, as I have partly intimated before.
Redgauntlet Walter Scott 1801
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