foreknow

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For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.

From The Leader by Dongen, H. R. van

They could not hope to outdo Shakespeare and foreknow their respective Hamlets; they must slowly make their Hamlets' acquaintance by living with them.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean

Now one makes use of a vain and false opinion if, by observing the stars, one desires to foreknow the future that cannot be forecast by their means.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

Guardian, Giver, and Guide; If she may not foreknow, forejudge and foresee, What safety has childhood beside?

From The Crux by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins