foreknow

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He was a predictor, using his occult gift of second sight to foreknow events and tell The Leader about them.

From The Leader by Dongen, H. R. van

“For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the first-born among many brethren.”

From The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity by Orr, Charles Ebert

Those who marry are considered to foreknow and to foresee these duties, and to pledge themselves to do the best in their power to discharge them.

From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by Holyoake, George Jacob

It is readily conceded, that, in the order of nature, the Divine Being could not foreknow that a world would certainly exist, until he had determined to create it.

From Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. by Fisk, Wilbur

To fling the shirt or shift of a sick person into a spring, was a sure way to foreknow the issue of the malady: if it floated—life; if it sank—death.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter