foreknow

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Thou that by Set turns and changes from Thy high And glorious throne dost here below Rule all, and all things dost foreknow!

From Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II by Chambers, E. K. (Edmund Kerchever)

My spirits faint, while I these ills foreknow, And find myself the sad occasion too.

From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 05 by Scott, Walter, Sir

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

From Legends of the Saxon Saints by De Vere, Aubrey

If, indeed, it was necessary for God to decree an event, in order to foreknow it, this inference might be just.

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

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