foreknow

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But men by natural inclination seek to foreknow future events; and this belongs to divination.

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

And besides, he has a laboured argument to prove, that God could not foreknow the future volitions of moral agents, unless he views them as “necessarily connected with something else that is evident.” pp. 115-117.

From An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will by Bledsoe, Albert Taylor

Question at times She made, yet seemed the answer to foreknow.

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

Yet how foreknow and dread in one breath, unless with this divine seeming power of prescience, you blend the actual slimy powerlessness of defense?

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate."

From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Pringle, Allen