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Meaning of DEUTEROSCOPY

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Deu`ter*os"co*py\, n. [Gr. ? second + -scopy.]
1. 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. --Sir W.
                                               Scott.
2. That which is seen at a second view; a meaning beyond the
   literal sense; the second intention; a hidden
   signification. --Sir T. Browne.
 
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