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Sentences with deuteroscopy

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  • I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye. — Sir Walter Scott.
  • Sir Thomas Browne: “Not attaining the deuteroscopy and second intention of words, they omit their superconsequences, coherences, figures, or tropologies, and are not persuaded beyond their literalities (Brown’s Vulgar Errors). Chapter 3, Vol 1, p. 134, "The works of Sir Thomas Browne" edited by Charles Sayle, John Grant, Edinburgh, 1927.
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