verb
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to predict or foresee
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to notify in advance
Other Word Forms
- previsor noun
Etymology
Origin of previse
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English, from Latin praevīsus, past participle of praevidēre “to foresee”; pre-, visa
Example Sentences
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In actual practice our plans seem not to previse grandfathers and grandmothers, and stop short even of fathers and mothers.
From The Vitalized School by Pearson, Francis B.
Clairvoyance has, as thus appears, a retrospection, and is as able to see the past as the present, or previse the future.
From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson
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