foreknow

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Her impatience was proportionable to the love she had for them, and which made her wish to foreknow all the happiness that was like to attend them.

From The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; by Defoe, Daniel

But after ourselves moving in such an environment it is marvelous to ponder that any creatures prefer it, and good to foreknow that our own world will swim out into a splendid frosty weather.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian

Here the prophecy was a long time ahead, and foretold the exact coming of a ball depending on a combination of circumstances which would seem impossible for reason or intuition to foresee and foreknow.

From Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science by Tuttle, Hudson

For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

God kept us both in so great a dependence on His orders, that He did not let us foreknow them; but the divine moment of His providence determined everything.

From The Autobiography of Madame Guyon by Guyon, Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte