antevert

English

Etymology

From Latin antevertere, from ante + vertere (“to turn”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /æntɪˈvɜː(ɹ)t/

Verb

antevert (third-person singular simple present anteverts, present participle anteverting, simple past and past participle anteverted)

  1. (obsolete) To prevent, to avert.
    • 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
      antevert some great danger to the public
  2. (medicine, obsolete) To displace by anteversion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “antevert”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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