Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To foresee.
- To cause to foresee; forewarn; advise beforehand.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To foresee.
- v. To inform beforehand; to warn.
WordNet 3.0
- v. realize beforehand
- v. warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning
Etymologies
- Middle English previsen, from Latin praevidēre, praevīs- : prae-, pre- + vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“MICHAEL SHERMER, PUBLISHER, "SKEPTIC" MAGAZINE: Well, Anderson, I need to previse my remarks by noting that, there are no conspiracies, there is no cover-up, there was no crash and the government never lies.”
“But it behoves us to previse that the doctor does not kill her before the lawyer comes. ”
“Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study.”
“’Tis the novelty of the experiment which makes impressions on their conceptive, cogitative faculties; that do not previse the facility of the operation adequately, with a subact and sedate intellection, associated with diligent and congruous study.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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akmed13 [From Latin praevisus, past participle of praevidere (to foresee), from
pre- (before) + videre (to see). Ultimately from the Indo-European root
weid- (to see) that is the source of words such as wise, view, supervise,
and wit.]
from wordsmith.org Jun 6, 2007