second-sight Meaning, Definition & Usage

Sec"ond-sight` noun
Definitions
  1. The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.
    he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison.
    Nor less availed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of second-sight. Trumbull.

Webster 1913