Frompre- +see.
pre-see (third-person singular simple presentpre-sees,present participlepre-seeing,simple pastpre-saw,past participlepre-seen)
- (transitive, rare) Toforesee.
1938, K. W. Wild,Intuition:Or again, that man had once the faculty forpre-seeing the future, as he now has for remembering the past, but has lost it in great measure, on account of its biological undesirability?
