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Definition of Second sight

1. Noun. Apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses.

Definition of Second sight

1. Noun. ESP, an additional sense beyond the five normal ones, clairvoyance. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Second sight

1. 1. Improved near vision in the aged as a result of increased refractivity of the nucleus of the lens causing myopia. Synonym: senile lenticular myopia. 2. The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events. Such as are of a disastrous kind, the capacity of a seer or prophetic vision. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Second sight

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1901)
"The second sight is an impression made either by the mind upon the eye, ... By the term second sight seems to be meant a mode of seeing superadded to that ..."

2. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland by Samuel Johnson (1775)
"... that the second sight of the He- Brides implies only the local frequency of a power, which is nowhere totally unknown; and that where we are unable to ..."

3. Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1897)
"THE SECOND-SIGHT From 'The King's Tragedy ' AGAINST the coming of Christmastide That year the King bade call I' the Black Friars' Charterhouse of Perth A ..."

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