foreknow

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Did he, like the old hero Njal, "gentle and generous," foreknow his end as he chose out this quiet, beautiful spot?

From Sigurd Our Golden Collie and Other Comrades of the Road by Bates, Katharine Lee

For as it belongs to his wisdom to foreknow all future events, so it belongs to his power to rule and govern them by his hand.

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various

Those who marry are considered to foreknow and to foresee these duties, and to pledge themselves to do the best in their power to discharge them.

From English Secularism A Confession Of Belief by Holyoake, George Jacob

Yet how foreknow and dread in one breath, unless with this divine seeming power of prescience, you blend the actual slimy powerlessness of defense?

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

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