prediscovery

But for this TU240, this is expected to be the earliest prediscovery photograph.

Arp's Phantom Jet | Universe Today 2010

Remember ever that painful prediscovery is better than later disappointment.

Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics B. G. Jefferis

Remember ever that painful prediscovery is better than later disappointment.

Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage B.G. Jefferis

Among the “future-piercing suggestions” extolled by Mr. Shaw we may be sure that the author of “Man and Superman” was pleased to acknowledge Butler’s prediscovery that woman is the pursuer.

Samuel Butler: Diogenes of the Victorians 1921

When they were convinced that a Spanish ship had been at Tautira twice since they had departed, and that the builders of the cross had earned the respect and affection of the natives, the Britons, in their old way of fair and assertive dealing, left the cross standing after carving on the reverse in good Latin as a claim of prediscovery:

Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900