verb
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to predict or foresee
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to notify in advance
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of previse
First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English, from Latin praevīsus, past participle of praevidēre “to foresee”; see pre-, visa
Vocabulary lists containing previse
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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
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.
With these general principles prevised, we may consider, briefly, the respective rights of the individual and of society.
From Socialism A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles by Spargo, John
Passages apt for quotation are learned by rote; phrases are polished until they are luminous; periods are premeditated; paragraphs and sections prevised.
From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John
He had interdicted any communication with the Forest, as Mr. Carnegie prevised.
From The Vicissitudes of Bessie Fairfax by Lee, Holme, [pseud.]
There is no experience more gratifying to one's vanity than to have successfully penetrated and prevised another man's intention.
From First Person Paramount by Pratt, Ambrose
They flew to Black Hall, picturing the people, prevising the possibilities there.
From Cruel As The Grave by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
The momentary pain of dying is usually much less intense than the hours of cowardly suffering which men bring upon themselves by prevising the anguish of their last departure, so he told himself.
From Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin by Dawson, Coningsby
There are wondrous impulses in us, constitutional convictions prescient of futurity, like those prevising instincts in birds leading them to take preparatory flights before their actual migration.
From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville
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