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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of prevision.

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Examples

  • Life is the product of mind; it was intended, purposed, “previsioned.”

    Random responses to Luskin on evolution of creationism, quotes, and information - The Panda's Thumb 2010

  • When the religious grannie says, “I previsioned this,” as she ignorantly gets carted away in the cab by the mafioso who do her in, a few moments later.

    Is Religion in Science Fiction Something New? Hardly! James F. McGrath 2009

  • But, speaking of fictionality… so were stories re satellites; trips to the moon; lasers; and so many other damn things SF has previsioned… fictional, that is.

    Your Big Fat Election Brain Dump, 1/11/08 « Whatever 2008

  • He rose with the words, as if he had too long forgotten her personality in the excitement of her previsioned career.

    The Woodlanders 2006

  • Quite as in some great racing-stable an ambitious horseman might imagine that he detected in some likely filly the signs and lineaments of the future winner of a Derby, so in Berenice Fleming, in the quiet precincts of the Brewster School, Cowperwood previsioned the central figure of a Newport lawn fete or a London drawing-room.

    The Titan 2004

  • She previsioned a time when all her life before he came into it would have dropped out of remembrance as a tale that is told.

    McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. Various

  • She had previsioned many moments in which she should disclose her unique value to a dazzled world, but most of them had seemed, even to herself, extremely unlikely to arrive.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • Joffre and his associates of the council not only foresaw the war, but they quite clearly previsioned its extent and something of its character.

    Foch the Man Laughlin, Clara E 1918

  • To this extent Dr. Surtaine had become a partisan of the new enterprise; that he, too, previsioned an ideal newspaper, a newspaper which, day by day, should uphold and defend the Best Interests of the Community, and, as an inevitable corollary, nourish itself on their bounty.

    The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

  • For now it was the Tyro who went to bed, miserable and at odds with a hostile world; whereas Little Miss Grouch dreamed of a morrow, new, glorious, and irradiated with a more splendid adventurousness than her slave had ever previsioned.

    Little Miss Grouch A Narrative Based on the Log of Alexander Forsyth Smith's Maiden Transatlantic Voyage Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

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