foreknow

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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

For while still dreading your doom, you foreknow it.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

"For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate."

From Ingersoll in Canada A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others by Pringle, Allen

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

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

From Orthography As Outlined in the State Course of Study for Illinois by Cavins, Elmer W.