(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 2:10:05

Prae*cog"ni*ta (?), n. pl. [L. praecognitus, p. p. of praecognoscere to foreknow. See Pre-, and Cognition.]

This previously known, or which should be known in order to understand something else.

 

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