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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Passages apt for quotation are learned by rote; phrases are polished until they are luminous; periods are premeditated; paragraphs and sections prevised.
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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.
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There is no experience more gratifying to one's vanity than to have successfully penetrated and prevised another man's intention.
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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.
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They flew to Black Hall, picturing the people, prevising the possibilities there.
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