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

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

Now one makes use of a vain and false opinion if, by observing the stars, one desires to foreknow the future that cannot be forecast by their means.

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

"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

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