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