precognize

We can't precognize anything about them unless we're at the destination they're heading for, and then only the time of arrival.

Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935

"_He can only tell when a ship will arrive at the solar system where he is, so he had to come here to precognize. _"

Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935

But when this lunatic said it, they could precognize it too!

Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935

Talents, Incorporated couldn't improvise or precognize or calculate an answer to this!

Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935

A less common snare for writers on language -- not quite perennial, but perhaps quinquennial -- is that a less than perspicacious reader will find momentary lapses where there is none and precognize them.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 2 1982

Not only would she have to precognize the fact that the name Perks would appear in the second column on the front page of the Times, she would have to clairvoyantly discover that “Perks” was the name of a man whom Thomas’s father spent a day with at a specific place called Leek forty years ago.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

Not only would she have to precognize the fact that the name Perks would appear in the second column on the front page of the Times, she would have to clairvoyantly discover that “Perks” was the name of a man whom Thomas’s father spent a day with at a specific place called Leek forty years ago.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004

Not only would she have to precognize the fact that the name Perks would appear in the second column on the front page of the Times, she would have to clairvoyantly discover that “Perks” was the name of a man whom Thomas’s father spent a day with at a specific place called Leek forty years ago.

Experiencing the Next World Now Michael Grosso 2004