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Second-sight

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Sec´ond-sight`
n.1.The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.
He was seized with a fit of second-sight.
- Addison.
Nor less availed his optic sleight,
And Scottish gift of second-sight.
- Trumbull.
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"She sits down like," said Irene, trembling in second-sight, "and she tries on the glass slipper, and it fits her to a T, and then the prince, he cries in a ringing voice, 'This here is my true love, Cinderella, what now I makes my lawful wedded wife.
The Little White Bird by Barrie, James Matthew View in context
She believed that she sometimes had a kind of second-sight about letters, and could tell before she read them whether they brought good or evil tidings.
Alexander's Bridge by Cather, Willa View in context
Virgin natures have, beyond all others, the inexplicable gift of second-sight, the reason of which lies perhaps in the purity of their nervous systems, which are, as it were, brand-new.
Bureaucracy by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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