deuteroscopy

English

Etymology

From deutero- +‎ -scopy.

Noun

deuteroscopy (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the literal sense, ulterior signification.
    • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica‎, London: Edw. Dod & Nath. Ekins, published 1650, Book I, Chapter 3, p. 7:
      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.
  2. Second sight.
    • 1822, The Fortunes of Nigel‎, Walter Scott, Introductory Epistle:
      I felt by anticipation the horrors of the Highland seers, whom their gift of deuteroscopy compels to witness things unmeet for mortal eye […]
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