Word Meanings - PRESENTIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Feeling or perceiving beforehand.
Related words: (words related to PRESENTIENT)
- FEELINGLY
In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically. - PERCEIVER
One who perceives . Milton. - FEELER
One of the sense organs or certain animals , which are used in testing objects by touch and in searching for food; an antenna; a palp. Insects . . . perpetually feeling and searching before them with their feelers or antennæ. Derham. 3. Anything, - PERCEIVE
perceptum; per + capere to take, receive. See Capacious, 1. To obtain knowledge of through the senses; to receive impressions from by means of the bodily organs; to take cognizance of the existence, character, or identity of, by means of the - PERCEIVABLE
Capable of being perceived; perceptible. -- Per*ceiv"a*bly, adv. - FEELING
1. Possessing great sensibility; easily affected or moved; as, a feeling heart. 2. Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility; as, he made a feeling representation of his wrongs. - BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation, - PERCEIVANCE
Power of perceiving. "The senses and common perceivance." Milton. - FEEL
f; akin to OS. gif to perceive, D. voelen to feel, OHG. fuolen, G. fühlen, Icel. falma to grope, and prob. to AS. folm paim of the hand, 1. To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over - APPERCEIVE
To perceive; to comprehend. Chaucer. - MISFEELING
Insensate. Wyclif. - FELLOW-FEELING
1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot. - IMPERCEIVABLE
Imperceptible. South. -- Im`per*ceiv"a*ble*ness, n. Sharp. - FELLOWFEEL
To share through sympathy; to participate in. D. Rodgers. - IMPERCEIVED
Not perceived. - FOREFEEL
To feel beforehand; to have a presentiment of. As when, with unwieldy waves, the great sea forefeels winds. Chapman. - UNFEELING
1. Destitute of feeling; void of sensibility; insensible; insensate. 2. Without kind feelings; cruel; hard-hearted. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemned alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, Th' unfeeling for his own. Gray. --