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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

precognition
    n 1: knowledge of an event before it occurs [syn:
         precognition, foreknowledge]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Precognition \Pre`cog*ni"tion\, n. [L. praecognitio, fr.
   praecognoscere to foreknow. See Pre-, and Cognition.]
   1. Previous cognition. --Fotherby.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. (Scots Law) A preliminary examination of a criminal case
      with reference to a prosecution. --Erskine.
      [1913 Webster]

3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

PRECOGNITION, Scotch law. The examination of witnesses who were present at 
the commission of a criminal act, upon the special circumstances attending 
it, in order to know whether there is ground for a trial, and to serve for 
direction to the prosecutor. But the persons examined may insist on having 
their declaration cancelled before they give testimony at the trial. Ersk. 
Princ. B. 4, t. 4, n. 49.

Thesaurus Results for Precognition:

1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

a priori knowledge, anticipation, apprehension, buddhi, clairvoyance, command, comprehension, conception, conceptualization, direct apprehension, foreboding, foreknowing, foreknowledge, foreseeability, forewisdom, grasp, grip, ideation, immediate cognition, insight, inspiration, intellection, intelligence, intuition, intuitionism, intuitive reason, intuitiveness, intuitivism, knowledge without thought, mastery, mental grasp, prehension, presage, prescience, presentiment, satori, savvy, second sight, second-sightedness, sixth sense, subconscious knowledge, subconscious perception, understanding, unmediated perception, wisdom

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