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Precognition

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Knowledge of something in advance of its occurrence, especially by extrasensory perception; clairvoyance.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The ability to foresee the future.

n. Knowledge of an event that is to occur in the future.

n. The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Previous cognition.

n. A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Previous knowledge or cognition; antecedent examination.

n. A preliminary examination; specifically, in Scots law, a preliminary examination of a witness or of one likely to know something about a case, or the evidence taken down; especially, an examination of witnesses to a criminal act, before a judge, justice of the peace, or sheriff, by a procurator-fiscal, in order to know whether there is ground of trial, and to enable him to set forth the facts in the libel.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. knowledge of an event before it occurs

Word Usage

"* The precognition is the record of the preliminary evidence on which the public officers charged in Scotland with duties entrusted to a grand jury in England, incur the responsibility of sending an accused person to trial."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

ESP extrasensory perception second-sight clairvoyance

Form

precognitive

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

clairvoyance

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

psychokinesis teleportation telepathy second-sight clairvoyance