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

"Whom He did foreknow He also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son."

From Natural Law in the Spiritual World by Drummond, Henry

For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Happy minds that can redeem Their engagements how they please, That no joys or hopes esteem Half so precious as their ease: Wisdom should prepare men so, As if they did all foreknow.

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

When they sought for the cause, it was mainly in order to control the effect or if it was uncontrollable, to foreknow and adapt their conduct to it.

From Auguste Comte and Positivism by Mill, John Stuart