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)

For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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

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

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)