deuteroscopy
nounEtymology From deutero- + -scopy.
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Obsolete That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense, ulterior signification.
- For not attaining the deuteroscopy, and second intention of the words, they are fain to omit their superconsequencies, coherencies, figures, or tropologies; and are not sometime perswaded by fire beyond their literalities.1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 7:
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Second sight.
- I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye […]1822, The Fortunes of Nigel, Walter Scott, Introductory Epistle: